I feel like asking linguists to also be not-racist, not-clueless, and good prose stylists shouldn't be too much to ask. But apparently...
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Interesting things said in my presence
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[edit] added: 2 February 2013
[edit] added: 1 February 2013
JH: "Well, this was accepted to a major international conference, so it can't be useless."
RS: "Wrong."
[edit] added: 1 February 2013
"So Korean dramas are all the rage in lots of countries in Asia. And in China, when they imitate this recurring phrase from the Korean dramas—[Korean...], ‘I love you’—because that's what they do in Korean dramas, they love each other—they repeat it with an affricate."
[edit] added: 1 February 2013
"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]."
[edit] added: 25 January 2013
"If we put it in the carrier sentence first, we might have confounding variables—like thinking."
[edit] added: 11 January 2013
"No, no Noğays have ever wanted to sleep with me. To my knowledge."
[edit] added: 11 January 2013
"I wonder if they make almond-shaped marzipan candy."
[edit] added: 7 January 2013
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."
[edit] added: 22 December 2012
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, ..."
[edit] added: 16 December 2012
(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"