(00:32:14) Colum: [...] I like the super abstract it-is-there-because-chomsky-says-it-is-there syntax.
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 1 December 2006
[edit] added: 2 December 2006
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[edit] added: 2 December 2006
"Let's call this the Chomskian response; no linguistics talk is complete without a massive quote from Chomsky."
[massive Chomsky quote appears on slide]
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heard: 1 December 2006
[edit] added: 2 December 2006
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 2 December 2006
"I don't even know how high that number is—it's one of those numbers with letters in it that I don't understand because I haven't taken math since high school."
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heard: 27 November 2006
[edit] added: 27 November 2006
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 27 November 2006
"Languages are big."
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heard: unknown
[edit] added: 26 November 2006
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 26 November 2006
(21:46:21) [me]: (yes, linguistics is science—it's predictive)
(21:46:50) [Aladnsane]: Then tell me how my ancestors will say 'indifferent' 500 years from now.
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heard: 22 November 2006
[edit] added: 22 November 2006
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[edit] added: 22 November 2006
"Kids are freakin' expensive! ...Uh, not to buy, but to raise."
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heard: 20 November 2006
[edit] added: 21 November 2006
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 21 November 2006
"I like that bus—they're all gettin' on him. Oh, rats, they found me!"
The driver of the 73X bus as it stopped at 42nd and the Ave right behind another 73X bus.
driving, annoyingness, randomness
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heard: 20 November 2006
[edit] added: 20 November 2006
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 20 November 2006
"This is not a non-word! [xkɬpltθkʰft] is a non-word."
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heard: 14 November 2006
[edit] added: 17 November 2006
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 17 November 2006
Jonathan: "I don't like the 373 bus as much as the 66 bus, because instead of dropping you off a block and a half from the house, it drops you off √50 blocks from the house."
Derek: "Uh, I think that's where my mother lives."
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heard: 17 November 2006
[edit] added: 17 November 2006
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[edit] added: 17 November 2006
Jonathan: "People never write on your wall. They write on my wall all the time."
Derek: "Yeah, that's because you're friends with an entire country."
