"Well, Jonathan's excellent at writing twol, and I'm pretty good at hassling Jonathan to do stuff."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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other categories found with "compliments": insults (20), linguistics (13), gradschool (11), language (11), sadness (10)
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[edit] added: 15 January 2015
(00:09:56) firespeaker: there's so much win in git
(00:10:07) firespeaker: and there's like two or three big fails
(00:10:21) vigneshv: SVN is the opposite :P
[edit] added: 27 December 2014
(01:51:13) sushain: .g xkcd workflow
(01:51:13) begiak: sushain: http://xkcd.com/1172/
(01:51:18) sushain: google is magic
(01:51:26) firespeaker: so is begiak
(01:51:38) sushain: begiak is like a grumpy old wizard
(01:51:48) sushain: sometimes it doesn't even try
[edit] added: 12 March 2013
I was a homebody by Austin standards
which has made me social chair by ACES standards
[edit] added: 1 March 2013
"Oh, you don't know what open quotient is? You know most things."
[edit] added: 31 October 2011
Bus driver: "No one's complimented me today on my bus driver costume."
Guy on bus: "It's very scary, sir."
[edit] added: 6 January 2009
(13:18:45) kesuari: and today the jon at uni was going on about not doing homework during break
(13:19:09) kesuari: funny how things come in batches
[edit] added: 14 April 2008
"I'm scared of your fridge. I never know if it's some strange experiment or food."
[edit] added: 26 February 2008
(13:53:57) kesuari: now you're getting stupid
(13:54:15) [me]: no, I'm actually trying to get it to go one step further
(13:54:20) [me]: in a scientific way, not a silly way
(13:54:41) kesuari: for you, i think there's little difference anyway
[edit] added: 24 February 2008
(02:14:04) Jóhann: dude, can you stop being a language nerd like me for one second and enjoy chauvnistic jokes? :D
[edit] added: 24 February 2008
(02:21:33) Rianna: i'm hungry for something, but i'm highly unsure what
(02:22:20) Rianna: but i dunno, i don't wanna cook up pea soup now
(02:22:40) [me]: well, bawırsaq might be good
(02:22:46) [me]: I had some really good boorsoq today
(02:23:01) [me]: bog'irsoq isn't too hard to make
(02:23:05) [me]: I have a recipe
(02:23:09) [me]: though I've never actually tried it
(02:23:19) Rianna: mitä vittuu toi o?
(02:23:30) [me]: a type of fried dough / bread
(02:23:31) [me]: kind of
(02:23:37) Rianna: hahaha
(02:23:38) Rianna: nice
(02:23:41) [me]: ?
(02:23:50) Rianna: you answered my question :-p
(02:23:54) [me]: ..?
(02:23:55) [me]: so?
(02:24:08) Rianna: it was in another language..?
(02:24:13) [me]: oh shit
(02:24:15) [me]: wtf
(02:24:19) [me]: okay
(02:24:26) Rianna: i just asked you what the fuck is that
(02:24:30) Rianna: and you just answered that
(02:24:30) [me]: I guess I'm just used to guessing what people are saying half the time anyway
(02:24:46) [me]: don't really pay attention to how they say it unless I'm in linguist mode
(02:24:47) Rianna: you should put that on your quotes page to show off your mad skillz
(02:25:16) Rianna: you're a....demigod among linguists, Jonathan
[edit] added: 22 February 2008
(12:17:30) Michael: although crazy professors are pretty cool
(12:17:35) Michael: i think you'd make a pretty good crazy prof
[edit] added: 17 February 2008
(04:38:57) Jóhann: youd like this song :P
(04:39:03) Jóhann: kazakh weird music is the genre
[edit] added: 14 February 2008
(17:54:49) Brenda: a card is better than a red satin thong. i like you. you have class
...
(17:55:26) [me]: anyway, try giving a Central Asian girl a thong and see what happens
(17:55:40) [me]: actually, I'm not sure what would happen
(17:55:57) Brenda: she would floss with it
[edit] added: 12 February 2008
(23:05:15) Jóhann: you are a walking wikipedia :D
[edit] added: 10 February 2008
(18:11:23) Amanda: you meet the most random people in the most random countries
(18:11:49) Amanda: like, i've never met a norwegian person EVER, and you meet one in like, east bum, planet jupiter
(18:11:58) Amanda: ... i say this bc i forget which country you're in now
[edit] added: 22 December 2007
(02:30:11) [me]: and I'm pretty open minded, I guess
(02:30:26) Rianna: you guess?
(02:30:38) Rianna: You're one of the most open-minded people I know
(02:31:16) [me]: huh, I have some pretty strong beliefs in certain directions though, and that makes me closed minded on those issues
(02:33:04) Rianna: hrm, yea, I guess, I have some stuff like that, but I dunno, it tends to be in the direction of "let's tolerate people who aren't hurting others" rather than "lynch the [racial slur]"
[edit] added: 21 December 2007
(15:15:12) [anon1]: no CIA for you. better finish the PhD
(15:15:27) [anon2]: why do you keep denying me the government jobs?
(15:15:35) [anon2]: they must have a pretty interesting file on me already
(15:16:16) [anon1]: on me too i would imagine
(15:16:48) [anon1]: if we ever applied we would fail the background check -- they wouldn't have the energy to complete it! :)
[edit] added: 7 December 2007
(13:32:30) Brenda: you check, i call him up to pick me up and drive me places and everytime he is happy to come and everytime he gets lost and i have to give up and catch a bus. like, what is the point of relationships? clearly there can be no love bc such cannot exist in the rotted and twisted hearts of men (no offense; it is a gender thing, not a sex thing, which means you're fine bc you are an individual who creates himself outside of societal presssures and definitions)
(13:32:53) Brenda: and men who have 16 hours hangovers and get lost right when you need them have otherwise no point
[edit] added: 30 November 2007
(02:48:09) [anon]: if there is one thing turks are good at (or used to be good at) it's incorporating elements into themselves as if they were always there.
[edit] added: 7 November 2007
Tristan: "It's weird hearing you say /o/s correctly when you speak other languages [Russian, Kyrgyz]."
Jonathan: "Why's that?"
Tristan: "Because you don't normally pronounce them right in English."
[edit] added: 6 November 2007
(18:56:03) Altynay: Bishkekte emne kylyp atasin
(18:56:32) [me]: кыргыз тилин жакшылоо үчүн практика кылып жатам
(18:57:14) Altynay: abdan jakshi
(18:57:41) Altynay: sen ushul Bishkekte kalip Kyrgyzdarga Kyrgyzcha sabak beret okshoysun :)
[edit] added: 23 October 2007
(13:06:16) Derek: I wanted to say thanks for speaking Kazakh (etc) around me all the time
(13:06:41) Derek: I think it's giving me a big edge in my Uighur class right now
(13:07:28) Derek: Turkic seems familiar to me instead of something strange, which is something the other students I would say definitely lack ;)
[edit] added: 13 May 2007
"I had no idea that linguistics was such a witty field."
[edit] added: 22 April 2007
(00:04:32) kesuari: eü -> ew is nothing...
(00:05:04) [me]: actually, not's not true
(00:05:45) [me]: didn't you look at that chart I sent? ;)
(00:06:29) kesuari: oh, w desonorises!
(00:06:32) kesuari: that’s awesome
(00:06:32) [me]: yeah =)
(00:06:42) [me]: I remember noticing that about 2 years ago
(00:06:46) [me]: and coming to the same conclusion
(00:07:00) kesuari: lol. yeah, your opinions are contagious or something
[edit] added: 28 February 2007
"Okay, look dude: one thigh, two thigh, butt, back."
[edit] added: 12 February 2007
Gabe: "So in other words, every time something stupid came into your head, you'd have to do it immediately."
Jonathan: [playing with something on the table at a restaurant] "Like me!"
[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
[edit] added: 30 October 2006
Jonathan you make kazakh people go WOW!
[edit] added: 15 May 2006
Aladnsane: "You just don't want to quote things you said that aren't flattering [to yourself]."
me: "I … don't … know … what you you're talking about :-P"
[edit] added: 3 May 2006
00:43:21 [me]: agh. I was stupid
00:43:33 [aladnsane]: ?
00:44:01 [aladnsane]: I mean, I believe you and all ;)
[edit] added: 4 May 2006
Jurgen: "You know, some people say I'm hard—I don't think I'm that hard."
Jonathan: "Well, you're flexible."
classmate: "You're the xantham gum of professors."
Avram: "Flexible, but still with integrity."
[edit] added: 26 February 2006
18:05:22 [Tristan]: "songs about diachronic OT phonology"? you're mad.
[edit] added: 12 February 2006
06:11:54 [Aaron]: does this make sense:
06:11:55 [Aaron]: For the sake of differentiating between participants in the pre-recorded conversation (e.g. those who sat in the recording studio and conversed) and users who have downloaded and listened to the audio file via a technological media, the terms “participants” and “users” will be used throughout this paper, respectively.
06:12:48 [me]: yes, that's perfectly clear [to me]
06:13:00 [Aaron]: shit
06:13:03 [Aaron]: if it's clear to you
06:13:07 [Aaron]: then nobody else has a chance...
[edit] added: 12 February 2006
06:11:54 [Aaron]: does this make sense:
06:11:55 [Aaron]: For the sake of differentiating between participants in the pre-recorded conversation (e.g. those who sat in the recording studio and conversed) and users who have downloaded and listened to the audio file via a technological media, the terms “participants” and “users” will be used throughout this paper, respectively.
06:12:48 [me]: yes, that's perfectly clear [to me]
06:13:00 [Aaron]: shit
06:13:03 [Aaron]: if it's clear to you
06:13:07 [Aaron]: then nobody else has a chance...
[edit] added: 2 February 2006
05:43:39 [Tristan]: and why is equality suddenly intransitive?
05:43:47 [me]: because evilness is bivalent
05:44:24 [Tristan]: the valency of evilness has no meaning wrt the transitivity of equality.
05:44:50 [Tristan]: if FOO's transitive, then if a FOO b and b FOO c means a must FOO c, simple as that
05:45:56 [me]: nope
05:46:09 [me]: that's only in standard western lgoic
05:46:36 [Tristan]: you will confuse everyone if you don't use standard western logic!
[edit] added: 20 December 2005
04:20:24 [me]: and there it is, your 18th quote
04:26:46 qatharsis: Only 18? I have to be wittier.
[edit] added: 8 August 2005
[02:51] Aaron B : you should get a cool linguistic alias
[02:51] Aaron B: like, you know how weathermen always just "happen" to have a geological reference in their names?
[02:51] Aaron B: around me we have "johnny mountain"
[02:51] Aaron B: and "dallas storm"
[02:51] Aaron B: you can be like...
[02:51] Aaron B: "jon minimality"
[02:52] Aaron B: or like "Al O. Phone"
[02:52] Aaron B: (short for Albert Optimality Phone)
[edit] added: 4 July 2005
(23:37:42) Jess: omg ubuntu is amazing
(23:37:55) Jess: i worship at the shrine of ubuntu
[edit] added: 14 March 2005
(05:04:45) Jess: no one's as bad as you
(05:04:58) [me]: yeah, I think I might even hold records
(05:05:13) [me]: one paper due in february turned in the day grades were due in may
(05:05:29) [me]: another final paper turned in early the next semester
(05:06:06) Jess: yep
(05:06:15) Jess: you get the procrastinator award
[edit] added: 19 November 2004
(23:46:47) Kesuari: (just now reading your quotes page. sometimes it seems it would be easier on you if you just hitched up a microphone and speech-to-text system under oberon's mouth and just have a complete transcription of everything he says)
[edit] added: 14 November 2004
(15:59:45) Aaron B: but i forgot that you're jonathan
(15:59:51) Aaron B: and conventional logic doesn't apply
(15:59:58) [me]: IT'S NOT CONVENTIONAL LOGIC
(16:00:08) [me]: it's logic that works on stereotypical american teenagers and no one else
(16:00:27) Aaron B: right
(16:00:29) Aaron B: convention
[edit] added: 3 October 2004
(18:49:47) Qatharsis: One of your weirdo Frenches.
(18:49:52) [me]: rofl
(18:49:54) [me]: *mine*?
(18:50:05) Qatharsis: You keep digging them up.
[edit] added: 18 September 2004
(07:06:09) Kesuari: (haha, you have an american accent)
(07:07:12) Kesuari: (it's really weird, because you seem so educated :)
[edit] added: 2 February 2004
(18:03:18) Qatharsis: Man, you need therapy. ;-)
[edit] added: 2 February 2004
(04:17:24) Kesuari: o ... kay... i have come to the conclusion that you, sir, are insane, and forget the difference between yourself and the rest of the world :)
[edit] added: 6 December 2003
(03:25:41) Aarón: youre screenshots are scary
(03:26:00) Aarón: it's like looking through the eyes of a paranoid schizophrenic
...
(03:30:27) Aarón: AH! it's 330
(03:30:42) Aarón: ok... must sleep... snow is waiting for me
(03:30:51) Aarón: i can see it building up JUST for me :)
(03:30:57) Aarón: it's calling my name
(03:31:07) Aarón: "aaaaaron, aaaaaaron.. come plaaaaaay with meeeeeE"
(03:31:16) Aarón: o wait... it's the damn pipes in my room
(03:31:23) Aarón: SHUT UP, PIPES
(03:31:40) Aarón: ok, i think I'M the paranoid schizophrenic, not your screenshot
[edit] added: 24 November 2003
"We always see you, but you always come out from behind something, like a rock."
[edit] added: 8 September 2003
"You keep asking questions—I feel like I'm in the Matrix, you know, and these bullets are flying by me and I'm dodging them."
[edit] added: 30 July 2003
(13:11:20) Qatharsis: Your languages suffer from inbreeding, it seems.
(13:12:55) [me]: inbreeding?
(13:14:59) Qatharsis: They're all each other's brother's offspring, and the replicative deficiencies show.
(13:58:39) [me]: there's no inbreeding in the Tēlvo languages
(13:58:47) [me]: no more so than there are in any other language
(13:59:06) Qatharsis: They just look like contorted copies of each other. =P
(13:59:26) Qatharsis: And they develop pathological spelling freakages.
(14:00:07) [me]: what??
(14:00:37) Qatharsis: I mean, accented l? Hello?
[edit] added: 6 July 2003
(17:13:06) Qatharsis: Then again, you live in a country where knowing some French make you a Sex God.
[edit] added: 16 June 2003
(02:06:56) Casuarius: you're insane, though. i have *no* idea why you're doing this when you could be bringing about world peace or something :P
[edit] added: 4 June 2003
(15:21:01) Qatharsis: How come a quote is "profoundness" when it's by you, but "stupidity" otherwise?
[edit] added: unknown
[05:49:52] (sn withheld): You're a genius
[05:49:59] (sn withheld): in that you're insane in the same way my operating system is