(21:43) Tristan: you realise of course that what you're doing here is filing bugreports for linguistic theories, which are kind of like computer programs
(21:43) Tristan: so the "maintainers" are probably going to call you mad
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(21:43) Tristan: you realise of course that what you're doing here is filing bugreports for linguistic theories, which are kind of like computer programs
(21:43) Tristan: so the "maintainers" are probably going to call you mad
Nat: "Wait, what? Now you guys have to tell me."
oberon: "I was just making stuff up to scare Jon."
Jonathan: "And I was just making stuff up to scare Nat, and oberon played along rather nicely."
Nat: "... Somehow I don't trust either of you."
"I was standing there peeing and I thought to myself 'I know they took the cow'."
"We'll make you a deal—if there's a lunar eclipse, we'll give you something to eat; if there's not, we eat you."
(22:54:40) [me]: /r/ → [j] → ∅
(22:55:33) Aaron B: ??
(22:55:41) Aaron B: whatʼs the second arrow mean?
(22:56:08) Aaron B: /input/ -> [output] -> telepathy?
(22:56:18) Aaron B: that would explain the sound/no sound alternation...
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(22:57:12) Aaron B: if that's the case, then there might be a weird kind of suppletion thing going on
me: "Huh, if you go to the Jackson School's page, they have this graphic at the top that's a picture of some stream that doesn't look like it's on the UW campus."
Graham [looks at picture]: "Oh yeah, I've seen that place, it's on the other side of Lake Union."
me [reloads page, blinks]: "Hey look, now they have a picture of the Taj Mahal."
Graham: "Yeah, you haven't seen that? It's behind the forestry building."
"You've got the 2nd sound shift here with a vengeance."
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."
(04:10:01) [me]: you mind/want your name cited?
(04:10:23) [me]: (by default, I'll say "Examples from personal communication with Christian Thalmann, 19 April, 2005.")
(04:11:17) Qatharsis: Cool. :)
(04:12:05) Qatharsis: Though "Christian 'm4st0r of teh univers' Thalmann" would be more proper. ;)
"There probably shouldn't be a wikipedia page on everything, though, since there's probably a wikipedia page on Idaho."
"You know what I don't understand about bribing people to buy things—why don't you just lower the prices to what it would've been...?"
kid in car: "Hey, I know you!"
Jonathan: "Do you?"
older girl in car: "He's 11."
Jonathan: "Oh, okay."
03:58:07 [Tristan]: yeah, that's basically the way apple is.
03:58:31 [Tristan]: we PWN you, sort of thing.
"I should run a seminar: 'I'm ugly and foul-mouthed and I get laid.'"
"Why does the diet coke here [Usdan] taste different than at Sherman?"
(04:13:38) Kesuari: i wish i could run software that didn't exist
(04:13:56) Kesuari: i'd run mktristanknoweverythinghewants
(17:29:30) Michael T: vowels are always plotting against me.. especially ɯ. you never know what ɯ is thinking.