me: "That's an abstract?!"
anonymous: "It's a very abstract..."
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me: "That's an abstract?!"
anonymous: "It's a very abstract..."
"I had no idea that linguistics was such a witty field."
Ray: "Phonetics can be a turn off."
Mark: "Depends on how you teach it, Ray."
"Positing *o is like positing Ident-Germanic and saying that among Uralic languages, Finnish has it most highly ranked."
"Phonology happens."
"Speakers can't converge on a common rule because no one knows what anyone else is doing."
"And you'll be in beautiful downtown Nepal, …"
Ray: "Most of these people [taking intro to linguistics] won't become majors—"
Mark: "And shouldn't."
Mark: "From your mouth to God's ear."
linguist: "It's an Indian mouth—he won't hear."
"[In phonology,] you can't just say ‘Oh, that's PF.’"
"Why do we keep weird strong verbs around for thousands of years?"
"Linguistic theory is your friend."
"I tried to structure this talk so there's something for everyone, but that means there's also something that'll annoy everyone."
"This guy could kick your ass—he's a muscle-bound semanticist."
"I'm proudly in the last generation that knows what they said about the Irish. Two-hundred years ago."
"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].’"
"And you're going to think, ‘Oh, the big thing is OT Pragmatics—I should do that.’"
"We don't just want you to think that we're software designers with no understanding of theoretical linguistics. Then you wouldn't sit next to us in the coffee shop, and that would be bad."
(18:42:02) spectie: Flammie, did you get the abstract in on time ?
(18:43:42) Flammie: I did, though it was kindof short and wishywashy
(18:43:52) spectie: you should have seen mine and firespeaker's
(18:44:50) firespeaker: we didn't even read ours
(18:44:52) spectie: yeah
(18:45:11) firespeaker: and I think it just sounds like a bunch of disconnected facts about Kyrgyz morphology
(18:45:19) firespeaker: and phonology
(18:45:33) firespeaker: which is basically what talking to me sounds like I guess