"We're trying, but it isn't that easy—that part of Nova Scotia isn't anywhere."
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Interesting things said in my presence
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other categories found with "hyperbole": sarcasm (8), computers (5), linguistics (5), linux (4), weirdness (4)
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[edit] added: 18 March 2006
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 :)
[edit] added: 19 April 2005
(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. ;)
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"Well, lango could be a word in like 50 million languages. Or just 5 hundred or whatever.."
[edit] added: 5 June 2003
(17:12:07) [me]: I have a new haircut too, but it's pretty normal for me. just shorter than most people are used to
(17:13:40) [Sarah]: lol. the jonathan. i think we should market it that way
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"This is worse than like F-type Turkish prisons."
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(16:34:23) Verdant Forest: ack, I have a bazillion plastic bags, what am I going to do with them all?
(16:34:34) Verdant Forest: a bazillion is probably about 25-30
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"Writing like a lousy heavy metal song is so easy."
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Me: "I'd like to see oberon play these steps for 20 minutes."
Rameez: "He would die."
Me: "It would be funny though."
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"I'm against beating children, but if my kids ever call french fries freedom fries, I'm going to seriously beat them."
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"Broccoli is a tool of the devil. It looks like a green brain."
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"I'm the kind of guy who would pour acid on my hand to see how fast it burns."
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"She's like that Justice Brandeis guy come back as a Turkish girl!"
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(00:05:32) firespeaker: I wrote some last night
(00:05:44) firespeaker: added to the story I've been writing. also edited it considerably
(00:05:48) ¡Luz! Je viens du ciel et les étoiles entre elles / ne parlent que de toi...: what langue?
(00:06:11) firespeaker: what langue do you think? it's a story that may become an epic...
(00:06:19) firespeaker: It's in Tjelwu of course!
(00:06:23) firespeaker: j/k.. English =P
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"Real Linux users don't use directories!"
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"Yeah, it does have a lethargic aire, this room."
[edit] added: 14 July 2008
[Чоң шамал келгенде]
"Казанды карма!"
[edit] added: 20 July 2009
(22:46:00) kesuari: but yeah, i get the idea from wp+google's awfully projected world map
(22:46:22) kesuari: seriously, russia looks like it's as big as all the rest of eurasia combined!
(22:48:37) kesuari: altho i suppose that "only" makes it look twice as big as it is
[edit] added: 16 January 2011
CB: "There's one rule about language comparison—"
Niko: "Don't trust a Russian?"
[edit] added: 11 January 2012
(21:25:55) faggot: We and 200 guys are going to send in you in an inexistance
(21:26:01) faggot: with a special DDOS app
(21:26:10) faggot: except debian.org to be down for hours
(21:26:47) faggot: it begins in a half hour
(21:26:53) faggot: also we`ll take down freenode after that
...
(21:27:23) faggot: we have already lavished the money from the Debian`s paypal account
...
(21:27:33) faggot: it was like 4000$ there
(21:27:35) faggot: poor guys
...
(21:28:38) faggot left the room.
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(21:29:28) firespeaker: we should DoS him ourselves
(21:29:48) gnarface: he's in romania you'd DoS the whole country
[edit] added: 22 January 2012
Jonathan: "Yeah, I've found that a lot of linguists aren't good at dealing with computers [e.g., writing transducers]."
Fran: "And most computer people aren't good with linguistics."
Jonathan: "Yeah, there aren't many who can cross over to the other side well. I think most of us are sitting in this room."
Fran: "And the other's coming on Tuesday."
[edit] added: 24 January 2012
Fran: "You've convinced me that it's time for me to learn a real Cyrillic keyboard layout."
Jonathan: "Yeah, I can't believe you still use a transliterated keyboard. How do you do non-Russian Cyrillic letters?"
Fran: "I copy-paste them. It sucks."
Jonathan: "But how many languages have you worked on that use Cyrillic?"
Fran: "Most of them."
[edit] added: 1 February 2013
"But you don't have languages where, for example, sonority behaves as a prosodic feature. So you don't have languages were some words are like [waə̃wə̃wʊɑ̃ə̃ɑ̃] and others are like [pskxə̥ɸhtʰɯ̥kʰɯ̥]."
[edit] added: 11 November 2013
[11:42] <tw2113> did you scale it down to just 1 user ID?
[11:42] <jonorthwash> I suppose I could do that
[11:42] <tw2113> via something like phpmyadmin
[11:42] * jonorthwash whips up a query
[11:42] <tw2113> or if you're fancy, sequelpro
[11:42] <jonorthwash> real men telnet to the mysql port
[11:43] <Limp_Trizkit> telnet to the mysql port? psssh. real men open the DB files in a hex editor
[11:43] <myosotis> hex editors are just a crutch for stream editor n00bs
[11:43] <tw2113> i read my mysql databases in binary
[edit] added: 18 March 2002
Fran: "So I was at the bar at the airport and there was someone on the TV saying that banning same-sex marriage should be up to the states."
me: "Yeah... ☹"
Fran: "And murder legalised by school-district."
me: "Wait, what??"
Fran: "Well, I'm extrapolating."