Amy: "My grandmother had back surgery today."
Aaron: "Yay!"
Amy: "My grandmother had back surgery today."
Aaron: "Yay!"
"I actually went to modfest and got spilled beer on."
(03:23:23) Kesuari: (dʒɔnz søːvəz ə hoː)
(03:24:10) Kesuari: (jon's server's a whore)
(03:24:25) Kesuari: making reference the number of people who have webpages on it)
(06:02:06) Kesuari: (there is, i think, a certain amount of regular voicing and devoicing of stops and /tS/~/dZ/ (which might better be called /c/ and /J\/ even if that isn't their phonetic rendition) IMD. I have heard that it's not uncommon in AuE for voiced stops to be totally unvoiced and unvoiced aspirated, though i'm not sure if that's true for me.)
(06:02:44) [me]: that's like Werner's law
(06:03:03) Kesuari: or the second sound shift of german.
(06:03:19) Kesuari: which is like Werner's
(06:03:40) Kesuari: also fits into this neck of the woods better e.g. chinese and many other asian langs
(06:05:30) [me]: English:PIE::Australian English:Proto Germanic
(06:05:33) [me]: or at least in 2000 years
(06:06:02) [me]: lord help us if Middle English becomes proto-World
"Air is small."
(17:51:53) Aarón: that would be an interesting study
(17:51:58) Aarón: how sarcasm is denoted in text
(17:54:20) Aarón: how many weeks are there in the semester?
Aaron: "You know, I just realised that 'shermanate' can be present tense and past tense, you know, like 'Sherman' . . . 'ate'."
Laura: "You're the queen of the retarded."
Aaron [falsetto voice]: "Why thank you."
(22:25:36) Bryan: :-P i need a woman who wants to spread the joy
(22:18:11) Peter: heh i'm not a database query i can filter through them
(03:22:06) Danny: web of trusts are wonderful
(03:22:07) Danny: DRM is bad
(03:22:15) Danny: Palladium is devil-spawn