"For Indiana, Irkutsk is gay-friendly."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 12 August 2010
[edit] added: 12 August 2010
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[edit] added: 12 August 2010
(11:45:53) Aaron B: i don't even have a querty!
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heard: 30 May 2010
[edit] added: 30 May 2010
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[edit] added: 30 May 2010
(13:44:30) jonorthwash: anyway, the Kyrgyz side of the invitation's going to be very different
(13:44:42) Aaron B: make sure to put the same date ;)
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heard: 7 May 2010
[edit] added: 9 May 2010
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[edit] added: 9 May 2010
"Ой, өчүр рекламаны. Түшүндүк уже: сатылат экен."
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heard: 23 April 2010
[edit] added: 23 April 2010
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[edit] added: 23 April 2010
"‘Мен кеттим. Вернусь on Sunday,’ деп айтты."
And they say people code switch to mark discourse edges or to indicate other meaning....
linguistics, kyrgyz, russian, language, turkic, multilingualisms
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heard: 3 April 2010
[edit] added: 14 April 2010
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[edit] added: 14 April 2010
"The IMU is my second home. It's open at least 24 hours a day."
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heard: 0 April 2010
[edit] added: 14 April 2010
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[edit] added: 14 April 2010
Тэмүүжин: "‘Дулаахан’ means ‘slow’, right?"
Everyone: "No."
Тэмүүжин: "‘Дулаан’ then?"
... [everyone pauses]
Тэмүүжин: "I'm getting colder, aren't I?"
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heard: 26 February 2010
[edit] added: 25 February 2010
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[edit] added: 25 February 2010
"Он взял хлеб, потом убежал чють-чють подальше и там стоял и кушал. Не друг, то есть, а белка."
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heard: 8 February 2010
[edit] added: 8 February 2010
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[edit] added: 8 February 2010
(21:43:46) Aaron B: and H&R are like "um, you got peanut butter in my chocolate; NO, you got CHOCOLATE in my peanut butter"
(21:43:51) Aaron B: except they don't like Reese's
(21:44:04) Aaron B: so they're grumpy about it
(21:44:19) Aaron B: basically they're like "phono is a completely arbitrary, abstract computation system; anything else = lame"
...
(21:46:37) Aaron B: lol, sorry
(21:46:50) Aaron B: sometimes i need to anthropomorphize complex theoretical issues
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heard: 8 February 2010
[edit] added: 7 February 2010
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[edit] added: 7 February 2010
"Мне нравится эта песня потому-что старая. Она моя бабушка."
