"I don't think I would've gotten in a car with that guy even if I did know his name. That's probably just because the sketch artists made him look extra sketchy."
"...Which is probably why they call them sketch artists."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 23 September 2010
[edit] added: 23 September 2010
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[edit] added: 23 September 2010
Багш: "Дөрөвдөх өдөр IMUд хүн бүр хүхдүүд хайртай гэдэг кино болно: Everybody Loves Babies."
Мөнх-Эрдэнэ: "Яагаад?"
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heard: 17 September 2010
[edit] added: 17 September 2010
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[edit] added: 17 September 2010
[Niko says something syntactically odd in English]
[Everyone pauses and frowns, including Niko]
Niko: "Eh, L9 interference."
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heard: 17 September 2010
[edit] added: 17 September 2010
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[edit] added: 17 September 2010
Baatar: "I wonder what happened."
Jonathan: "They're probably just being Central Asians."
Baatar: "Yeah, they'll show up really late."
Jonathan: "‘We'll be there on Monday.’"
Baatar: "Yeah, but they wouldn't say that."
Jonathan: "Yeah, they'd probably came up with some excuse."
Baatar: "They'll just show up three days later on their microbus and say, ‘We couldn't cross river.’"
...
Baatar: "‘We made good time across Russia, but then we got to the Atlantic.’"
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heard: 31 August 2010
[edit] added: 2 September 2010
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[edit] added: 2 September 2010
"For Indiana, Irkutsk is gay-friendly."
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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."
