"Now, you know what would make this sound African, is you put those pumpkin seeds in that basket thingy."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 28 January 2012
[edit] added: 1 February 2012
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[edit] added: 1 February 2012
[чаң]
[...]
мин: "Бер генә булдымы? .. Юк, сәгать өч икән! Нигә бер генә ди?"
[чаң]
мин: "Аа, ике икән."
[... чаң]
мин: "Өч. Булды."
Ростәм: "Белмим, чиркәүдә дүрт тә булырга мөмкен."
мин: "Нигә?"
Ростәм: "Чиркәү булса, һәр ничек була"
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heard: 21 January 2012
[edit] added: 1 February 2012
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[edit] added: 1 February 2012
я: "Здесь, когда хотим повернуться нет никакого светофора, а раньше, когда хотели просто побыстрее ехать, полно было. Вот закон подлости!"
Илшат: "Да, вот единственный закон который в России работает."
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heard: 26 January 2012
[edit] added: 1 February 2012
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Андрей: "А почему свинину не кушаешь?"
я: "Моя мама еврейка, и поэтому у нас такая семейная традиция есть."
Андрей: "А мой дед был Удмурт, и поэтому я все кушаю."
Андрей
food, religion, family, tautologies, nonsequiturs, machoism, SSSR, culture, animals, ethnocentrism, russian
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heard: 25 January 2012
[edit] added: 25 January 2012
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[edit] added: 25 January 2012
"Если человек не понимает слово, это не проблема перевода - это проблема человека."
Варвара
misunderstandings, russian, translation, multilingualisms, stupidity, sadness, tautologies, people, computers
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heard: 24 January 2012
[edit] added: 24 January 2012
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[edit] added: 24 January 2012
Fran: "You've convinced me that it's time for me to learn a real Cyrillic keyboard layout."
Jonathan: "Yeah, I can't believe you still use a transliterated keyboard. How do you do non-Russian Cyrillic letters?"
Fran: "I copy-paste them. It sucks."
Jonathan: "But how many languages have you worked on that use Cyrillic?"
Fran: "Most of them."
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heard: 22 January 2012
[edit] added: 22 January 2012
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[edit] added: 22 January 2012
Jonathan: "Yeah, I've found that a lot of linguists aren't good at dealing with computers [e.g., writing transducers]."
Fran: "And most computer people aren't good with linguistics."
Jonathan: "Yeah, there aren't many who can cross over to the other side well. I think most of us are sitting in this room."
Fran: "And the other's coming on Tuesday."
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heard: 18 January 2012
[edit] added: 18 January 2012
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[edit] added: 18 January 2012
(00:36:40) crawfora: the "read more" page does actually explain that the use of easily-disabled javascript was deliberate; they want to make it possible for people to access the site in emergencies
(00:36:59) firespeaker: crawfora: hmm, wikipedia for emergencies?
(00:37:06) jarrettwold2: someone on a cell phone looking up medical information
(00:37:07) twb: crawfora: like "oops I stabbed a guy now how do I do first aid... ask wikipedia"
(00:37:15) ***TomyLobo searches "what is the number of 911?"
(00:37:16) jarrettwold2: twb: that's how it is now :)
(00:37:18) crawfora: twb: I'm sure it happens
(00:37:30) firespeaker: uhm
(00:37:36) vry: "what color is blood?!? quickly, open wikipedia"
(00:37:43) firespeaker: and they're going to what, figure out how to disable the javascript?
(00:37:52) firespeaker: on their blackberry
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heard: 11 January 2012
[edit] added: 11 January 2012
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[edit] added: 11 January 2012
(21:25:55) faggot: We and 200 guys are going to send in you in an inexistance
(21:26:01) faggot: with a special DDOS app
(21:26:10) faggot: except debian.org to be down for hours
(21:26:47) faggot: it begins in a half hour
(21:26:53) faggot: also we`ll take down freenode after that
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(21:27:23) faggot: we have already lavished the money from the Debian`s paypal account
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(21:27:33) faggot: it was like 4000$ there
(21:27:35) faggot: poor guys
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(21:28:38) faggot left the room.
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(21:29:28) firespeaker: we should DoS him ourselves
(21:29:48) gnarface: he's in romania you'd DoS the whole country
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heard: 26 December 2011
[edit] added: 26 December 2011
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[edit] added: 26 December 2011
(17:30:52) spectie: you know, ((we) = you) could write a better bashkir grammar than the one in TTL
(17:30:55) spectie: in a week
(17:31:31) firespeaker: I'm aware, but I don't know bashqort
(17:31:47) spectie: neither do the people writing the grammar!
