23:07:44 [Aaron] (Autoreply): the library made noises at me, so i'm in shapiro doing work.
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 30 April 2006
[edit] added: 1 May 2006
[comment] [rate] 4/5
[edit] added: 1 May 2006
"Positing *o is like positing Ident-Germanic and saying that among Uralic languages, Finnish has it most highly ranked."
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heard: 27 April 2006
[edit] added: 1 May 2006
[comment] [rate] 1/5
[edit] added: 1 May 2006
"French can be said to be ‘oxytonic.’ Not to be confused with ‘Occitan.’"
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heard: 27 April 2006
[edit] added: 1 May 2006
[comment] [rate] 1/5
[edit] added: 1 May 2006
"In French, we'll find out that it underwent two phases of apocope; I had a student once who said, ‘this sounds like the apocalypse.’"
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heard: 1 May 2006
[edit] added: 1 May 2006
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 1 May 2006
"I got cold, instead of hot. I asked for a little whipped cream—and got a lot."
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heard: 28 April 2006
[edit] added: 28 April 2006
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 28 April 2006
"This guy could kick your ass—he's a muscle-bound semanticist."
Jason Kandybowicz in reference to David Schueler
conferences, machoism, ghetto-talk, sketchiness, linguistics, gradschool
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heard: 25 April 2006
[edit] added: 27 April 2006
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 27 April 2006
"Please, no more climatology."
Jurgen, in response to a question about sound changes in French being perhaps due to the colder-than-Rome climate
linguistics, french, language, weather, science
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heard: 20 April 2006
[edit] added: 27 April 2006
[comment] [rate] 1/5
[edit] added: 27 April 2006
"There's really no solution to anything."
Jurgen, pointing out that linguists make a living by redefining things and solving nothing(?)
linguistics, wisdom, gradschool
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heard: 18 April 2006
[edit] added: 27 April 2006
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[edit] added: 27 April 2006
"Who could judge whether this is right or wrong in… not well known languages?—let's put it that way."
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heard: 25 April 2006
[edit] added: 27 April 2006
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[edit] added: 27 April 2006
"There's some sort of weird issue between the Papuan part and the New Guinea part—you know, local geopolitical stuff."
