me: "That's an abstract?!"
anonymous: "It's a very abstract..."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 5 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
[comment] [rate] 5/5
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heard: 4 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
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[edit] added: 9 January 2007
"[In phonology,] you can't just say ‘Oh, that's PF.’"
Paul Kiparsky, at the 2007 LSA annual meeting
conferences, irony, insults, wisdom, linguistics, tautologies
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heard: 4 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
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[edit] added: 9 January 2007
"Why do we keep weird strong verbs around for thousands of years?"
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heard: 4 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
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[edit] added: 9 January 2007
"Linguistic theory is your friend."
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heard: 4 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
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"I myself am a theoretical phonologist, but in the late '80s, my eyes were beginning to glaze over and I was saying ‘I don't care where to hang [lateral].’"
Bruce Hayes, at the 2007 LSA annual meeting
phonetics, linguistics, sadness, wisdom, conferences, gradschool
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heard: 30 December 2006
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
[comment] [rate] 4/5
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
my mother: "Did you put all your candy in a bag?"
me: "Nah, I just took some wrapping paper and put it all in there."
my mother: "But it's not a bag..."
me: "It's taped together though."
my mother: "But I taped it..."
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heard: 3 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
(03:28:52) [me]: mkay, yeah, I need to pack
(03:29:03) Derek: psh
(03:29:04) Derek: whatever
(03:29:10) Derek: just throw it all in a ball
(03:29:14) Derek: duct tape it up
(03:29:19) Derek: and roll it on the plane
(03:29:30) Derek: if you tell them its a bomb, they work faster you know
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heard: 1 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
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[edit] added: 9 January 2007
[redacted]: from now on when we disagree on american english usage, i'm just going to assume i'm right on the grounds that you spell yogurt with an H
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heard: 27 December 2006
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
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[edit] added: 9 January 2007
(03:12:51) [me]: I think they decided the klingons weren't Russian or Chinese enough anymore and had to rethink a new race to fit that type of society
(03:13:07) Derek: yeah
(03:13:21) Derek: they started Russian-Mongols and ended up Vikings
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heard: 27 December 2006
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
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[edit] added: 9 January 2007
(02:57:36) kesuari: if there’s a computer nearby, you could email yourself to it, and fix it now... :)
(02:58:36) kesuari: (one of these days, someone’s going to invent a device that can email solid objects instantly, and that joke won’t be funny anymore)
