"The name of this chapter is ‘Sentient Ecology’, but sadly it's not about Ents."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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other categories found with "anthropology": linguistics (5), SSSR (4), gradschool (4), provincialism (3), analogies (3)
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[edit] added: 7 January 2013
Orgil: "...and I don't get as much of an Anthropology perspective from prof. Atwood and prof. Kara—my advisor, and the other great Mongolist in the—"
other student: "—world."
[edit] added: 3 March 2012
"It was framed within Marxist—... I was going to say ‘theology’—which I think I'll stick with."
[edit] added: 25 February 2011
"Neuron - check, Pyscho-neuron - X,.... ‘Hey, this looks like it was graded by a folklorist!’"
[edit] added: 5 November 2010
"Anthropology's just racist folklore."
[edit] added: 16 May 2008
(21:47:20) Sarah: I think I'd have rather went to the leper colony with my parents than be swamped by old ladies.
(21:48:33) Sarah: The leper colony is historical, therefore cool.
(21:48:40) Sarah: Old people are NOT historical, unless they have neat stories...they're just old.
[edit] added: 15 April 2008
Lara: "Hm, it smells like animals in here."
anonymous: "It's all the Kyrgyz."
[edit] added: 13 February 2008
(14:54:07) Michaela: in english school can refer to either a university or an elementary school--as long as it's an educational institution
(14:55:12) [me]: no, in American English
(14:55:29) Michaela: true
(14:55:39) Michaela: but really, i mean, we know who's running the show these days
(14:55:44) Michaela: i'm not ethnocentric, but come on
[edit] added: 25 November 2007
"There's something about mountain people and alcohol—you know, they're not strangers."
[edit] added: 11 February 2007
(17:44:13) Jade Solitude: Looks like something only a Linguist, Anthropologist, or Folklorist would be interested in. =þ
(17:44:49) [me]: or any other scientist ;)
[edit] added: 6 September 2006
22:05:17 [Jess]: guess what i learned today
22:05:26 [Jonathan]: what?
22:05:36 [Jess]: the difference between competence and performance~!!!
…
22:05:53 [Jonathan]: so what's the difference?
22:06:29 [Jess]: narrow-minded wanna-be scientist linguists and bullshitty humanitarian science-doesn't-exist anthropologists?
[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 :)
[edit] added: 5 April 2005
"The raw act of boy fellating man would not go down well in mainstream America. No pun intended."
[edit] added: 14 March 2005
(06:23:29) Jess: i like anthropology much more for the way it thinks, rather than what it thinks about
[edit] added: 11 March 2005
Jackendoff: "Somebody washed [the board] with something wrong."
McIntosh: "Well, I wanna wash it with them."
[edit] added: 13 March 2005
McIntosh: "Naked mole rats—that sounds like a sitcom!"
Jackendoff: "Not `naked mall rats'?"
McIntosh: "That's pay-per-view."
[edit] added: 8 February 2005
Jonathan: "The founders of modern anthropology and modern linguistics were both secular Jews."
Vickie: "The founder of modern psychology was a secular Jew."
Jon: "The founder of Christianity was a secular Jew."