"I'm proudly in the last generation that knows what they said about the Irish. Two-hundred years ago."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 5 January 2006
[edit] added: 12 January 2006
[comment] [rate] 2/5
[edit] added: 12 January 2006
"Speakers can't converge on a common rule because no one knows what anyone else is doing."
Jeff Mielke, in a talk on the English /r/ at the 2006 LSA conference, in reference to the fact that there seem to be 8 or 9 acoustically equivalent production strategies, each with its own allophonic variation.
insanity, linguistics, insightfulness, conferences
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heard: 7 January 2006
[edit] added: 8 January 2005
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 8 January 2005
"Phonology happens."
Mark Aronoff in response to a comment on his presidential address at the 2006 LSA conference
linguistics, science, wisdom, time-travel, conferences
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heard: 8 January 2006
[edit] added: 8 January 2005
[comment] [rate] 4/5
[edit] added: 8 January 2005
16:02:46 devnullpenguin: they really shoulda called it phonology phest tho
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heard: 30 December 2005
[edit] added: 30 December 2005
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 30 December 2005
me: "So how did the fishies that evolved originally get to lake Baikal? By air?"
my genious scientist father: "Probably."
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heard: 27 December 2005
[edit] added: 27 December 2005
[comment] [rate] 4/5
[edit] added: 27 December 2005
My father: "I ate breakfast for a whole year."
Hannah: "Yesterday."
my father trying to give an example in a conversation on aspect
stupidity, language, linguistics, food
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heard: 20 December 2005
[edit] added: 20 December 2005
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 20 December 2005
04:20:24 [me]: and there it is, your 18th quote
04:26:46 qatharsis: Only 18? I have to be wittier.
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heard: 20 December 2005
[edit] added: 20 December 2005
[comment] [rate] 2/5
[edit] added: 20 December 2005
04:15:26 qatharsis: The Orkhon script is pretty strange. "Runiform" yet also "hellenoid" letters interspersed with emoticons.
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heard: 3 December 2005
[edit] added: 3 December 2005
[comment] [rate] 4.5/5
[edit] added: 3 December 2005
20:23:03 [Laura]: I want a pack of black flesh eating squirrels that i can command to attack people i don't like.
20:23:37 [Laura]: Hungry squirrels. It's better than say, hungry rats, because it's so much more degrading to be killed by a squirrel than a rat.
20:24:09 [Laura]: Wouldn't you love to sic a pack of meat-eating squirrels on your enemies?
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heard: 9 October 2005
[edit] added: 9 October 2005
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 9 October 2005
18:30:51 [oberon]: that does something totally whacky
18:30:52 [oberon]: the fuck?
18:31:00 [oberon]: The camel claimed that would work...
18:31:32 [me]: you using perl 6 already? ;-P
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18:37:04 [oberon]: Excellent
18:37:08 [oberon]: And no, I'm not using Perl 6
18:37:13 [oberon]: because it DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST
18:38:14 [me]: well, it was one possibility for why what you were doing wasn't working
18:38:24 [me]: that you got Perl 6 from future.sourceforge.net
18:38:35 [me]: and were using that as your primary perl interpreter for some reason
