"But you don't have languages where, for example, sonority behaves as a prosodic feature. So you don't have languages were some words are like [waə̃wə̃wʊɑ̃ə̃ɑ̃] and others are like [pskxə̥ɸhtʰɯ̥kʰɯ̥]."
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Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 25 January 2013
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"If we put it in the carrier sentence first, we might have confounding variables—like thinking."
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heard: 11 January 2013
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"No, no Noğays have ever wanted to sleep with me. To my knowledge."
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heard: 11 January 2013
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"I wonder if they make almond-shaped marzipan candy."
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heard: 7 January 2013
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Orgil: "...and I don't get as much of an Anthropology perspective from prof. Atwood and prof. Kara—my advisor, and the other great Mongolist in the—"
other student: "—world."
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heard: 22 December 2012
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me: "‘Draco’?"
my mother: "Yeah, they've started naming winter storms now."
me: "After what, Harry Potter characters??"
my mother: "Constellations, Latin names of things that might scare us, ..."
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heard: 16 December 2012
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(21:39:17) firespeaker: but it's worth seeing what the people who've spent time on this think
(21:39:23) spectie: aye
(21:39:25) firespeaker: "particles" is probably not the way to go
(21:39:41) spectie: "particle" stands for "defeat"
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heard: 6 December 2012
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(13:40:56) spectre: there is a special place in hell
(13:41:04) spectre: for linguists who design orthographies with the ' character
(13:41:53) spectre: (a) letters, (b) punctuation
(13:41:58) spectre: and ne'er the twain shall meet
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heard: 12 November 2012
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thanks to spectie for pointing this out
insanity, craziness, programming, computers, sadness, inappropriateness, non-nativisms
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heard: 9 November 2012
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[edit] added: 9 November 2012
(11:51:13) Francis Tyers: do you have christmas lists in america ?
(11:51:42) jonathan: uhm
(11:51:44) jonathan: maybe?
(11:52:00) jonathan: I feel like there's some extra piece of pragmatics attached to what you have in mind
(11:52:49) jonathan: like, a wishlist that you might show your relatives before Christmas?
(11:52:54) Francis Tyers: yeah
(11:52:56) jonathan: yeah, sure
(11:52:59) Francis Tyers: that you hang on a tree
(11:52:59) jonathan: we have that :-P
(11:53:02) jonathan: whoa
(11:53:02) Francis Tyers: for the christmas robin
(11:53:03) jonathan: wait
(11:53:05) Francis Tyers: to collect
(11:53:08) Francis Tyers: the christmas robin
(11:53:12) jonathan: wtf man
(11:53:14) Francis Tyers: takes the list to father christmas
