05:23:50 [me]: (I'm rather fond of pre-revolution Russian. It's almost proto-eastern slavic)
05:24:29 [Tristan]: yeah, well just wait till the english languages break up, our spelling will be proto-english :)
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 23 February 2006
[edit] added: 23 February 2006
[comment] [rate] 2/5
[edit] added: 23 February 2006
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heard: 22 February 2006
[edit] added: 22 February 2006
[comment] [rate] 2/5
[edit] added: 22 February 2006
Zoe: "Ребята, можно серьезно спросить?—Извини – ты говоришь по-русски?"
George: "Uh, … Меня зовут George."
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heard: 20 February 2006
[edit] added: 20 February 2006
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 20 February 2006
20:58:04 [me]: *moves to Iceland*
20:58:15 [Tristan]: what, you can do that just by saying it over IM? :)
20:58:27 [me]: hey, it was a performative sentence :)
20:58:40 [Tristan]: iceland has the 7th highest GDP per capita, apparently
20:58:46 [Tristan]: performative?
20:58:52 [Tristan]: (is that a word?)
20:59:04 [me]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative
20:59:08 [me]: wikipedia thinks so :)
21:00:20 [Tristan]: hm, interesting, so by saying "*moves to iceland*" it actually caused you to move to iceland? :)
21:01:15 [Tristan]: *moves to iceland*
21:01:20 [Tristan]: nah, didn't seem to work :(
21:01:29 [Tristan]: obviously not a perfomative in my dialect :)
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heard: 15 February 2006
[edit] added: 18 February 2006
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 18 February 2006
me: "Are people allowed to use cellphones in here?"
help-desk guy: "No, but I'm not going to do anything."
me: "Oh. Well, there's this really annoying girl on her phone at that computer over there."
help-desk guy: "In that case, I will do something."
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heard: 16 February 2006
[edit] added: 16 February 2006
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 16 February 2006
"You've got the 2nd sound shift here with a vengeance."
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heard: 16 February 2006
[edit] added: 16 February 2006
[comment] [rate] 2/5
[edit] added: 16 February 2006
"You could ask if the laws of motion are constructed online as an object is falling."
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heard: 14 February 2006
[edit] added: 16 February 2006
[comment] [rate] 1/5
[edit] added: 16 February 2006
"If language were perfect, could it be used for lying? …That's too hard."
prof. Zagona on humans not being suited for communication
linguistics, language, philosophy, deepness
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heard: 15 February 2006
[edit] added: 15 February 2006
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[edit] added: 15 February 2006
Guy at checkout: "What is that?"
me: "That's a rutabaga."
Guy at checkout: "Uh, how do you spell that?" [fumbles through code guide]
me: "R-U-T-A-B-E-G-A"
Guy at checkout: [finds code and punches it in]
me: "What is this world coming to?"
Guy at checkout: "Well, sir, we have a lot of produce, and I don't know what it all is."
The guy at the checkout at Safeway; and for the record, Safeway does not have a lot of produce.
sadness, stupidity, food, obliviousness, incompetence
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heard: 13 February 2006
[edit] added: 13 February 2006
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[edit] added: 13 February 2006
03:37:52 [me]: I want snow sooooo bad
03:37:57 [me]: though spring would be good too
03:38:05 [Laura]: word.
03:39:02 [Laura]: My left hand was off by a key, and I subsequently typed "woes" the first time i try to type "word"
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heard: 12 February 2006
[edit] added: 12 February 2006
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[edit] added: 12 February 2006
06:11:54 [Aaron]: does this make sense:
06:11:55 [Aaron]: For the sake of differentiating between participants in the pre-recorded conversation (e.g. those who sat in the recording studio and conversed) and users who have downloaded and listened to the audio file via a technological media, the terms “participants” and “users” will be used throughout this paper, respectively.
06:12:48 [me]: yes, that's perfectly clear [to me]
06:13:00 [Aaron]: shit
06:13:03 [Aaron]: if it's clear to you
06:13:07 [Aaron]: then nobody else has a chance...
