04:45:33 [Tristan]: well if you used words like god meant them to be word, there'd be no problem
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Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 27 February 2006
[edit] added: 27 February 2006
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 27 February 2006
04:29:42 [Tristan]: stupid 10 am is a time that shouldn't be allowed to exist.
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heard: 26 February 2006
[edit] added: 26 February 2006
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 26 February 2006
18:05:22 [Tristan]: "songs about diachronic OT phonology"? you're mad.
in response to Jonathan's Things that don't exist, but should page
compliments, insanity, music, linguistics, craziness, gradschool
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heard: 25 February 2006
[edit] added: 25 February 2006
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 25 February 2006
15:48:24 [oberon]: The opposite of extreme is extreme
in reference to creepy people who were creepy in opposite ways
people, creepiness, brandeis, wisdom, insightfulness
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heard: 23 February 2006
[edit] added: 23 February 2006
[comment] [rate] 2/5
[edit] added: 23 February 2006
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 :)
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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."
