"The Spanish speakers are all like ‘it's close enough—we'll just make a little phonological conversion chart: «insert a bunch of /ʒ/ and /ão/»’"
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Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 9 April 2012
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[edit] added: 9 April 2012
"We have vowel harmony; it's great. I like it, I love it!"
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heard: 6 April 2012
[edit] added: 6 April 2012
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[edit] added: 6 April 2012
(00:10:10) selimcan: oh, I have to make a small break and grep some coffee
"you know you've been coding too long when..."
non-nativisms, caffeine, programming, puns, linux, sadness
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heard: 28 March 2012
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[edit] added: 28 March 2012
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.’"
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heard: 28 March 2012
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[edit] added: 28 March 2012
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
[edit] added: 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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[edit] added: 3 March 2012
"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
