(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
Jonathan: "Kazakh isn't that hard—I don't know why all the materials that teach it are so bad."
Ardak: "I think it's because the Soviet system made things unnecessarily complicated."
(17:23:23) [me]: "More data would have to be gathered to determine what the underlying cause of these dichotomies is"
(17:23:37) [me]: (is there anything you'd change with that?)
(17:24:31) kesuari: (yes, of course i would; i find academic written language and the spoken language that is essentially its read version incredibly hard to understand)
(17:24:49) kesuari: (but unfortunately making it just normal english wouldn't be thesis-like enough)
(17:24:50) syljwesandhr: (so what would you change?)
(17:25:11) kesuari: "if we want to work out what actually causing these differences, we'll have to get more data"
"Kazakh is sweet piece of cake comparing to Russian.. Russian is even more harder than English..."
"Breton music is like Irish dance music with Iranian instruments."
Rianna: "What should we do with the bread?"
Jonathan: "Well, we could toast it."
Rianna: "Yeah, that's what I was thinking—that'll make it easier to spread the avocado joy."
15:48:24 [oberon]: The opposite of extreme is extreme
"Speakers can't converge on a common rule because no one knows what anyone else is doing."
"Well, Europeans travel because they're in Europe, and Australians travel because we're not."
[song plays: The Hollies - Stop Stop Stop]
Rianna: "Whoa."
Jonathan: "Do you recognise this?"
Rianna: "I recognise when someone is on drugs and writing music."
"Why is it that the Kazakh flag strikes me as Romulan somehow?"
"Okay, be careful when you're going to the bathroom, cause we don't want toilet paper falling in the toilet."
"This is, like, the ultimate incarnation of toast."
05:39:41 [me]: how big's the file?
05:39:49 [Tristan]: 346 MB
05:40:07 [Tristan]: (my internet connection's really fast, so i replied before i got the question)
05:40:44 [Tristan]: or maybe this?:
(00:39:51) [Tristan]: 346 MB
(00:39:53) [me]: how big's the file?
(00:40:15) [Tristan]: (my internet connection's really fast, so i replied before i got the question)
05:41:12 [me]:
05:39:41 [me]: how big's the file?
05:39:49 [Tristan]: 346 MB
05:40:07 [Tristan]: (my internet connection's really fast, so i replied before i got the question)
05:41:32 [me]: *someone's* internet isn't as fast as it should be
05:41:40 [me]: probably fault of my stupid ethernet cord though
05:42:11 [Tristan]: probably
05:42:22 [Tristan]: yours must be slow, and mine fast, to make me able to reply before your question gets here
05:42:38 [me]: .. what?
05:42:44 [me]: oh, that actually makes some sense
05:42:47 [me]: scarily enough
05:43:12 [Tristan]: lol
05:43:18 [Tristan]: don't i normally?
05:44:14 [me]: in weird ways like that? Emphatically yes.
05:44:39 [Tristan]: no, i mean in normal ways, like that
05:44:50 [me]: that's what I mean
05:44:54 [me]: you just think it's normal
05:45:00 [me]: cause it's you
05:45:51 [Tristan]: actually, i was a bit scared it would be patent nonsense,
05:46:02 [Tristan]: but i thought i should try anyway
05:46:02 [Tristan]: and it worked :)
05:46:16 [me]: no, you see, it did make some sense
05:46:45 [Tristan]: yeah, that's what i mean
05:46:45 [Tristan]: i was scared it would be patent nonsense
05:46:45 [Tristan]: and it wasn't
05:46:58 [Tristan]: so my attempts at communication resulted in some communication
05:47:10 [Tristan]: which is what working communication should do
05:47:10 [Tristan]: so it worked :)
05:47:21 [me]: you mean you were afraid it would come across as such?
05:47:37 [me]: (and hey, give me some credit too, I understood your nonesense)
05:47:38 [Tristan]: i was afraid it would come across as patent nonsense, but that wasn't my objective
05:47:43 [Tristan]: i was trying to communicate :)
05:47:44 [me]: okay
05:47:46 [me]: yeah
05:47:49 [me]: well, you succeeded
05:47:51 [Tristan]: i wasn't meaning to deprive you of any
05:47:57 [me]: after I thought on it some..
05:48:00 [Tristan]: yeah, but only after much effort just now!
(16:14:09) kesuari: if i agreed with everything you said, why not just talk to yourself?
Тралик: "Түнкү канал эрте көрсөтүлүп калган экен."
мен: "Анткени азыр саат 12ден кийин эч кимде шам жок."
Left-over master's thesis? Those things are like a surgeon's tool that gets left inside the body.
(14:15:48) [me]: every time I think back to how I thought about things in high school, central asia makes a lot more sense
(14:15:56) [me]: very provincial and uninformed about things
(14:16:12) Michaela: heh
(14:16:55) Michaela: you know, it's true--even thinking about things like the way people used to write in middle/high school--the quality of their writing makes a lot more sense
(14:17:45) Michaela: i remember telling my mom, "It's like, there's no one here that knows how to think outside the box." she said, "Honey, they don't even know that there is a box."
Jonathan: "Yeah, it's a couple people taking advantage of one group's suffering to take advantage of another group's generosity to take advantage of another group's money."
Rianna: "It's like one big orgy of screw-overage."
me: "Do you know ‘Children of a Lesser God’?"
Kris: "Is it a movie about mormons or something?"
CB: "There's one rule about language comparison—"
Niko: "Don't trust a Russian?"
Monolingual people are so paranoid!
(13:05:46) [me]: not the interesting places, mind you—just to some other city, probably to go to some night club or to see some girl
(13:06:02) Өвгөнхүү: well, to each his own method of sightseeing
(02:11:24) Gekz: You are overcomplexifying irrelevance
(02:11:29) Gekz: so this is what linguistics is
(17:15:49) spectie: what's the frst rule
(17:15:52) spectie: of turkic language grammars ?
(17:17:16) spectie: the first rule is
(17:17:27) selimcan: hargle bargle
(17:30:52) spectie: you know, ((we) = you) could write a better bashkir grammar than the one in TTL
(17:30:55) spectie: in a week
(17:31:31) firespeaker: I'm aware, but I don't know bashqort
(17:31:47) spectie: neither do the people writing the grammar!
"I wonder if they make almond-shaped marzipan candy."
I feel like asking linguists to also be not-racist, not-clueless, and good prose stylists shouldn't be too much to ask. But apparently...
Я: "Lucky точно так думает: ‘Я королева джунгли!’ деп."
Толгонай: "У родителей точно джунгли."
Brian: "Do you know why circular reasoning is so fun to make fun of?"
Jonathan: "Why?"
Brian: "Because it's fun to make fun of it."
(20:59:11) spectie: weFFIOJEoiweg;oiejg
(21:06:20) spectie: oijoij
(21:09:23) sushain: er
(21:09:24) sushain: hi spectie
(21:09:27) sushain: are you ok?
(21:21:17) spiegelian: sushain, it's a code, you have to break it
(21:45:07) sushain: spiegelian: hmmm
(21:46:07) sushain: 'weFFIOJEoiweg = went to the bar. oiejg = had some beer. oijoij = going to bed now
(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