me: "Yeah, Tolgonay, if I won the lottery and got poisoned, you'd be the first person they investigate."
Andy: "Or they'll just look at the mouldy bread on the table, and be like ‘oh, it was an accident.’"
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 28 March 2012
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heard: 28 March 2012
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me: "Hm, this talk looks like it's going to be about how some researchers make animal communication look more similar to language than it is."
Tolgonay: "‘Meow.’ What did I say?"
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heard: 21 March 2012
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[edit] added: 21 March 2012
(18:36:18) spectie: macedonian, bulgarian, {serbian, croatian, bosnian, montenegrin}, slovenian, english, ...
(18:36:37) krvoje: hey, our language is not a regex :p
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heard: 18 March 2012
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[edit] added: 18 March 2012
(04:14:07) نىكو: cypriot also has no question particle
(04:14:10) jonathan: oh???
(04:14:18) jonathan: (pun not intended)
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heard: 7 March 2012
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[edit] added: 7 March 2012
(19:14:27) firespeaker: "10 or 20 most important languages" :(
(19:14:30) spectie: yeah D:
(19:14:33) spectie: borrrrrrrrrrrring
(19:14:36) spectie: give me a U
(19:14:39) spectie: give me a D
(19:14:43) firespeaker: U D
(19:14:49) spectie: give me an M U R T
(19:14:52) firespeaker: M U R T
(19:14:59) spectie: U D M U R T !!!!!
(19:15:03) firespeaker: U D M U R T ! \o/
(19:15:11) spectie: \o/ \o/ \o/
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heard: 3 March 2012
[edit] added: 4 March 2012
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[edit] added: 4 March 2012
[shows slide with poster]
"I don't have to say much about this poster. You can all see who's handing who the baby."
RK presenting at the ACES conference
relationships, russian, ethnocentrism, common-sense, sadness, SSSR, friends
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heard: 3 March 2012
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"It was framed within Marxist—... I was going to say ‘theology’—which I think I'll stick with."
giving his talk at the ACES conference
religion, mongolian, SSSR, anthropology, philosophy, academia
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heard: 1 October 2011
[edit] added: 22 February 2012
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[edit] added: 22 February 2012
"There's only three themes in Bluegrass anyway: death, bad love, and for some reason retail."
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heard: 14 October 2011
[edit] added: 22 February 2012
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(2011-10-14 16:41:03) Christopher: In Yoshkar-Ola there are ethnofuturist young people who record pop music CDs and put on stage productions in Mari, but I don't think their efforts reach the villages they came from.
(2011-10-14 16:41:30) Christopher: Essentially they are a small elite who live in a bubble while their language is dying across the republic.
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heard: 11 February 2012
[edit] added: 16 February 2012
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[edit] added: 16 February 2012
me: "Why do I suddenly want coffee?"
Andy: "Well, you do have cake. Or is that banana bread?"
me: "No, it's coffee cake... [sudden realization]"
