"The name of this chapter is ‘Sentient Ecology’, but sadly it's not about Ents."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 24 March 2013
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[edit] added: 24 March 2013
(23:10:45) jonathan: type: "the use Lubunca"
(23:10:50) jonathan: *typo
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heard: 15 March 2013
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[edit] added: 15 March 2013
(13:11:51) spectie: қ:ғ {а}: ь: {☭}: >: {S}: ы: ь:ь {n}:н ы: __HFST_TWOLC_.#.
(13:12:00) spectie: uh oh, communism in our transducer
(13:17:45) selimcan: Фонологи всех стран, объединяйтесь! :)
Fran and Ilnar commenting about the Kazakh transducer
puns, phonetics, linguistics, programming, kazakh, russian, SSSR, politics
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heard: 15 March 2013
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[edit] added: 15 March 2013
Sam: "I'm going to sing a Mongolian song."
[Sam clears throat]
Niko: "That's actually the name of the song."
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heard: 12 March 2013
[edit] added: 12 March 2013
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[edit] added: 12 March 2013
I was a homebody by Austin standards
which has made me social chair by ACES standards
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heard: 1 March 2013
[edit] added: 1 March 2013
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[edit] added: 1 March 2013
"Oh, you don't know what open quotient is? You know most things."
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heard: 19 February 2013
[edit] added: 19 February 2013
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[edit] added: 19 February 2013
"Theremin ensemble? That sounds like the definition of Hell."
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heard: 1 February 2013
[edit] added: 2 February 2013
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[edit] added: 2 February 2013
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...
in response to "For example, some Arabic languages such as Farsi include a phonological contrast between the voiced velar stop /g/ and a voiced uvular stop /G/ that does not contrast with /g/ in English (Maddieson, 1984)."
academia, writing, racism, sadness, linguistics, insightfulness
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heard: 1 February 2013
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[edit] added: 1 February 2013
JH: "Well, this was accepted to a major international conference, so it can't be useless."
RS: "Wrong."
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heard: 1 February 2013
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[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."
