"The letter ‹q› is just hanging around waiting for English to gain uvular stops."
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Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 20 September 2009
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"Journal of Germanic Linguistics uses a modified LSA style that requires full first names instead of initials. I mean, there's apparently more than one Suzuki out there writing on Linguistics. If there's more than one Suzuki, think about names like Smith!"
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heard: 14 September 2009
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Jonathan: "Dude, I have a girlfriend."
Sod: "Yeah, but still."
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heard: 11 September 2009
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"As a consequence, Postmodernists' judgment about the invalidity of judgments must also be invalid, but the idea of criticizing Postmodernist dogma does not seem to be popular among them."
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heard: 9 September 2009
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"And then I was planning on not eating lunch, but they had taco salad, and so I had to."
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heard: 11 August 2009
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(20:06:04) kesuari: i wish someone would work out a universal definition of word, and make english orthography agree with it
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heard: 6 August 2009
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[edit] added: 6 August 2009
(21:12:04) kesuari: mark twain was awesome
(21:12:08) kesuari: possibly the world's best american
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heard: 30 July 2009
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[edit] added: 30 July 2009
(23:26:35) kesuari: "Use boldface for certain forms in Oscan and Umbrian, and to distinguish Gaulish and other forms originally written in the Greek alphabet." i don't suppose you have any idea why?
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(23:30:58) kesuari: (actually, that's pretty ironic: using bold instead of italics for italic languages like oscan and umbrian)
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heard: 21 July 2009
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(01:06:43) kesuari: (there's some people who manage to study the psycholinguistics of generative grammar, but i think that's like studying the physics of alchemy)
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heard: 21 July 2009
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(01:03:16) kesuari: it's very difficult to say "psycholinguistics" differently from "psycho linguistics", and a lot of people think that's an apt description of me/what i do
