14:24:40 [me]: you know how when you write an e-mail and edit it as you go, you sometimes miss stuff, so you an extra word or something?
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 30 January 2006
[edit] added: 30 January 2006
[comment] [rate] 5/5
[edit] added: 30 January 2006
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heard: 30 January 2006
[edit] added: 30 January 2006
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[edit] added: 30 January 2006
06:28:24 [Tristan]: so what, you're saying that if the russians had've invaded australia & america, they'd try and pretend we spoke different langs? :)
06:28:35 [me]: yes
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heard: 28 January 2006
[edit] added: 28 January 2006
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[edit] added: 28 January 2006
07:25:46 [Aaron]: ok, i gotta shower and get ready for the day
07:26:00 [Aaron]: also, something freudian may be noted on the fact that i originally typo-ed "day" as "bad"
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heard: 17 January 2006
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[edit] added: 17 January 2006
Prof. Voyles: "Let's get rid of the /ð/ in this example…"
me: "No, you can't do that—it's attested!"
prof. Voyles decides not to like Bashkir data, and I plea with him not to change the language
gradschool, germanics, omnipotence, sadness, linguistics, language, phonetics, turkic
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heard: 16 January 2006
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[edit] added: 17 January 2006
01:04:54 [me] (Autoreply): trying to get my spaghetti sauce recipe to taste right for once
01:18:07 qatharsis: May His Noodly Appendage guide you on this endeavor.
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heard: 15 January 2006
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[edit] added: 15 January 2006
06:58:41 [Laura]: Did you know
06:58:50 [Laura]: that there is a real movie coming out
06:58:58 [Laura]: called, "Snakes on a plane"
06:59:02 [me]: wtf
06:59:14 [Laura]: Snakes on a Plane.
06:59:24 [Laura]: As in, i can tell you the plot of the movie already.
06:59:31 [Laura]: There will be snakes on a plane.
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heard: 6 January 2006
[edit] added: 12 January 2006
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[edit] added: 12 January 2006
"I'm proudly in the last generation that knows what they said about the Irish. Two-hundred years ago."
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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
