Richard: "They did a spelling reform and got rid of all those extra circonflexes."
Jonathan: "Really? Did it apply to Canadian French?"
Richard: "Nothing applies to Canadian French."
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Richard: "They did a spelling reform and got rid of all those extra circonflexes."
Jonathan: "Really? Did it apply to Canadian French?"
Richard: "Nothing applies to Canadian French."
Jonathan: "Why did the French decide to settle Louisiana? What were they thinking, with the bayous and the prehistorical aligator-looking thingies that eat you?"
Gabe: "Well, the French are frogs, right?"
Jonathan: "Well, they eat frogs."
Derek: "Maybe they were looking for Yoda."
03:36:29 [me]: cardinal vowels are so wrong
03:36:44 [Tristan]: oh, yeah, they're quite arbitrary
03:37:58 [me]: very franco-centric, though, if you ask me
03:39:24 [me]: btw, Kazakh has aspirated voiceless stops
03:39:27 [me]: go figure
03:39:40 [me]: but those voiceless stops voice and fricativise on occasion :)
03:40:11 [Tristan]: the primaracy of voice distinction in stops is also very fraco-centric :)
03:40:28 [Tristan]: maybe the americans should make their own freedom phonetic alphabet :)
"J'ai почти todo этого фильма."
"That's the problem switching between French and Spanish—in Spanish you roll your 'r's; in French, you xkhqkh your 'r's."
[17:24:29] Verdant Forest: I think Russian is more lustful than French. French plays hard to get.
"Everything's filtered through the little woods we live in."
(19:13:28) [me]: yeah, they have a lot of quays in canada
(19:13:39) [Tristan]: probably to keep the americans out
"It's necessary to separate ‘French’ from what I call ‘Non-French.’ There's a dichotomy and I think a lot of people who study Romance linguistics don't realise this."
Aaron B [01:31]: well, i'm trying to be "le formal" so i don't "le fail" "le class"
(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.
"According to my watch, it's двадцать neuf одинадцатого."
...
"Now help me out here: сьем, восьем, nueve... but that doesn't sound right either."
(04:02:52) [me]: well, it works in french, so I'll just italicise it and call it english
(01:05:09) Оберон: If the pagans are right and there's a god of language purity I'm so screwed.
(01:05:16) Оберон: Then again...so is everyone but the french.
(01:05:22) Оберон: and probably them too.
(13:28:38) Kathryn: well, i'm going to shower so i can reconstruct proto-romance
(18:39:23) Qatharsis: There's a Swiss pen&pencil company called Caran d'Ache.
(22:39:11) [me]: well, we all know the French are chauvinists. They even invented the word.
"French can be said to be ‘oxytonic.’ Not to be confused with ‘Occitan.’"
"In French, we'll find out that it underwent two phases of apocope; I had a student once who said, ‘this sounds like the apocalypse.’"
Tristan: "[pæ̃ː]."
Jonathan: "[pæ̃ ]. It's short."
Tristan: "French is stupid."
Jonathan: "Why?"
Tristan: "Because it's not like my dialect of English."
[Jonathan shows Aaron a book on Qaraqalpaq written in French]
Aaron: "This orthography is.. what?"
me: "Inconsistent."
10:45:43 [redacted]: i think se coucher is reflexive for going to bed oneself
10:45:56 [redacted]: but "to bed, as in a woman" is probably not reflexive
10:46:30 [redacted]: (let's put it this way - if you se coucher, as in a woman, by yourself, god just killed a kitten)
Jurgen: "Promiscuity means ‘proximity’ in French."
Jonathan: "It would."
"There's another French politician who[se name] has to do with nasalisation!"
"Please, no more climatology."
Nat: "If you keep speaking French, I'll be forced to hit you."
Jonathan: "What's wrong with French?"
Nat: "French sounds like ass."
Matt: "Nat, I don't know what your ass sounds like."
Nat: "I can show you."
Matt: "If it sounds like French, then okay."
"Yeah, those are all Carla Bruni, mais I... but I..."
Me: "Mon nom c'est Jonathan, j'ai un nom qui sème la peur."
Mark: "Ce nom-là ne sème rien."
(17:13:06) Qatharsis: Then again, you live in a country where knowing some French make you a Sex God.
(20:09:08) Kathryn: i might not be able to understand it, but i know french when i hear it
(20:09:15) Kathryn: it's like pornography
"It's 'loi' in French: F — O — I."
(00:31:24) ¡Luz!: oh! I have my first publication in a foreign language
(00:31:55) ¡Luz!: you remember that stupid thing I had to write from the point of view of an aminal of a famous person?
(00:32:18) ¡Luz!: apparently I won some sort of contest (along with 7 other people...nationally)...and now it's published
(00:32:34) ¡Luz!: the poem about Frida Kahlo from the point of a monkey
"No, I didn't learn anything senior year—it must've been junior year. . . . In French I mean."
"Hold on, we need to change the equaliser for this one. I think I even have a preset for this one, yeap, called 'Max up DAT bass.'"
"Blast some MC Solaar up in here or something."
(16:29:31) kesuari: i learnt the names "asterix" and "obelix" long before i learnt what asterisks and obelisks were, and the common nouns are just weirdarse variants of the characters
(19:13:07) kesuari: French Guiana ... is an overseas department ... of France
(19:13:18) kesuari: It is an integral part of France, and its currency is the Euro.
(19:13:34) kesuari: france did colonisation really weird
(19:13:46) kesuari: france does everything really weird
(19:13:50) kesuari: france is really weird
(19:13:51) kesuari: damn frogs
(19:14:46) T. A. McLeay: en franczais
(19:15:14) T. A. McLeay: (my compose key and altgr key on this keyboard are switched, and it's easier to use a z and this explanation than it is to cope with switched keys)
"Okay, here's one of my stories about moonshine. So I have this uncle named Sam, and he's married to a French woman..."
"I have problems with gender."