"So if you encountered a strange dialect of English on some island where they don't do flapping, ..."
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Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 15 October 2009
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[edit] added: 15 October 2009
(23:19:05) Qatharsis: I had forgotten my conlanging days and my happy days overlapped. :)
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heard: 29 September 2009
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[edit] added: 29 September 2009
(23:41:30) [redacted]: i have to present 30-40 min on "the status of your qualifying paper" for our qual paper workshop
(23:41:44) [anon]: the status of my QP is "ummmmmmmmm"
(23:41:51) [anon]: it's hard to hold that out for 30-40 min
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heard: 26 September 2009
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[edit] added: 26 September 2009
"The letter ‹q› is just hanging around waiting for English to gain uvular stops."
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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
