"If a layman gets confused, I sort of don't care."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 27 February 2006
[edit] added: 27 February 2006
[comment] [rate] 4/5
[edit] added: 27 February 2006
20:09:20 [oberon]: You have sun dials because you hope the sun will show up. Without sun, sun dials don't work.
20:09:28 [oberon]: You have universities because you hope 18 year old women will show up.
20:09:31 [oberon]: Same basic argument.
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heard: 27 February 2006
[edit] added: 27 February 2006
[comment] [rate] 3.5/5
[edit] added: 27 February 2006
19:14:50 [Laura]: then pay 15 bucks for a cheap haircut, and have them save the hair.
19:15:01 [Laura]: You can braid it and put it on your wall.
19:15:07 [Laura]: That would be really creepy.
19:15:09 [Laura]: Don't do that.
19:15:24 [Laura]: mail it to people.
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heard: 27 February 2006
[edit] added: 27 February 2006
[comment] [rate] 2/5
[edit] added: 27 February 2006
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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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 :)
