(18:54:03) khannatanmai: I guess if we struggled with ambiguity in daily life, language would be pretty inefficient
(18:54:13) spectie: khannatanmai: welcome to firespeaker's world ;DDD
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(18:54:03) khannatanmai: I guess if we struggled with ambiguity in daily life, language would be pretty inefficient
(18:54:13) spectie: khannatanmai: welcome to firespeaker's world ;DDD
[22:37:24] <selimcan> <firespeaker> need to upgrade my firmware. bbiam
[22:37:34] <selimcan> didn't know firespeaker was a bionic
[22:39:48] <fotonzade> selimcan, they're slowly replacing all americans actually
[22:41:23] <selimcan> ola bilir
(00:09:56) firespeaker: there's so much win in git
(00:10:07) firespeaker: and there's like two or three big fails
(00:10:21) vigneshv: SVN is the opposite :P
(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
(18:01:23) firespeaker: (isn't lexc a mess?)
(18:01:26) sushain: yes
(18:01:30) sushain: all those newlines
(18:01:43) firespeaker: it's amazingly easy to work with though
(18:01:47) sushain: I can´t believe spectie didn´t add braces :P
Sam: "I'm going to sing a Mongolian song."
[Sam clears throat]
Niko: "That's actually the name of the song."
Bus driver: "No one's complimented me today on my bus driver costume."
Guy on bus: "It's very scary, sir."
(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
"Wait, what's this a commercial for? It's a waste of paper and it's inconvenient!"
(screen shows "USPS")
"Oh, of course."
(02:11:24) Gekz: You are overcomplexifying irrelevance
(02:11:29) Gekz: so this is what linguistics is
(05:56:07) zfe: Turk dil kurumu
(05:56:22) zfe: the national association for screwing up turkish
(05:56:30) zfe: i can see their building from my window
(05:56:34) zfe: and every day i spend 20-30mins
(05:56:46) zfe: thinking how i could drive a boing 737
(05:56:49) zfe: in their offices
Monolingual people are so paranoid!
CB: "There's one rule about language comparison—"
Niko: "Don't trust a Russian?"
(20:07:46) [redacted]: there is not one single redeeming quality about the interface
(20:07:49) [redacted]: except that you can see it
(20:07:53) [redacted]: like, that it's not covered in black
(20:07:57) [redacted]: that's the only redeeming quality
(20:08:00) [redacted]: that you can see it
"Flips like a pancake, lands like a rock—that's your father."
(19:34:54) ***kesuari bags jon all the time, but jon doesn't always notice it
(19:35:12) [me]: no, I just can't tell
(19:35:15) [me]: I notice that something's up
(19:35:19) [me]: and consider that as a possibility
(19:35:25) [me]: but can't always tell if it's the right one
(19:35:37) kesuari: it's like shakespearean comedy, except with insults, not sex
"I'm scared of your fridge. I never know if it's some strange experiment or food."
(23:29:36) Michael: wow
(23:29:38) Michael: you're so mean dude
(23:29:59) Michael: if heaven was run by carebears
(23:30:02) Michael: there's no way you'd get in
(22:39:11) [me]: well, we all know the French are chauvinists. They even invented the word.
(13:53:57) kesuari: now you're getting stupid
(13:54:15) [me]: no, I'm actually trying to get it to go one step further
(13:54:20) [me]: in a scientific way, not a silly way
(13:54:41) kesuari: for you, i think there's little difference anyway
(00:15:30) Michael: i don't know what wp is
(00:15:47) Michael: ohh
(00:15:50) Michael: wikipedia
(00:16:21) Michael: i was like, word perfect? why would anyone rely on that. it's so 199-never
Jonathan: "I mean, I've heard bad things about the place."
Lara: "What sorts of bad things?"
Jonathan: "That people tried pizza for the first time there and never wanted to eat pizza again."
Thatcher: "Yeah, 'cause it doesn't have mutton fat in it."
(03:19:15) [me]: I like tech support to know more than I do
(03:19:27) [me]: instead it's just this number I call to try to convince to flip a switch for me
(15:17:35) [me]: you just have to think like me is all, and then you'll understand things like this :-P
(15:17:46) kesuari: yeah
(15:18:06) kesuari: i, on the other hand, got my thinkingways from a more reputable dealer than you, i think
(15:18:14) kesuari: you probably got yours from a kyrgyz bizarre
(13:32:30) Brenda: you check, i call him up to pick me up and drive me places and everytime he is happy to come and everytime he gets lost and i have to give up and catch a bus. like, what is the point of relationships? clearly there can be no love bc such cannot exist in the rotted and twisted hearts of men (no offense; it is a gender thing, not a sex thing, which means you're fine bc you are an individual who creates himself outside of societal presssures and definitions)
(13:32:53) Brenda: and men who have 16 hours hangovers and get lost right when you need them have otherwise no point
(02:48:09) [anon]: if there is one thing turks are good at (or used to be good at) it's incorporating elements into themselves as if they were always there.
(22:26:59) [me]: the one where the guy didn't know how to take a pciture?
(22:27:16) Amanda: yeah but the one where "the guy" was me
(15:59:40) Rianna: I sat alone in the dark one night ... I found a preacher who spoke of the light -- he'd show me the way according to him, in return for my personal check. I flipped my channel back to CNN and lit another cigarette.
(16:00:15) Rianna: i dunno, that's most sane thing ever said on a country music station
Tristan: "It's weird hearing you say /o/s correctly when you speak other languages [Russian, Kyrgyz]."
Jonathan: "Why's that?"
Tristan: "Because you don't normally pronounce them right in English."
(18:56:03) Altynay: Bishkekte emne kylyp atasin
(18:56:32) [me]: кыргыз тилин жакшылоо үчүн практика кылып жатам
(18:57:14) Altynay: abdan jakshi
(18:57:41) Altynay: sen ushul Bishkekte kalip Kyrgyzdarga Kyrgyzcha sabak beret okshoysun :)
"You see, it's different for you: Kyrgyz and Kazakh girls are actually attractive."
my father: "Wait, why's it that much cheaper?"
employee at undisclosed fast-foodery: "I gave you the senior discount. ...Not sayin' there're any seniors around here—I just hooked y'all up."
Hamit aka: "I think Uzbek is the hardest—Uzbekistan is so small, and yet there are so many dialects of Uzbek. Xinjiang is big, but there are only three dialects of Uyghur. And Kazakhstan is huge, but there are no dialects."
Stefan: "Yeah. Russian's the same everywhere."
"Hah. You break matzah like a goy."
I sometimes wonder how they count.
they have trouble taking 10% of a large number
they were bothered by having claculators that couldn't handle enough digits
‘what is 24000 inches in feet?
let's guess until Dr. Washington tells us we're right’
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."
"IE 6 is the Netscape 4 of today."
Gabe: "So in other words, every time something stupid came into your head, you'd have to do it immediately."
Jonathan: [playing with something on the table at a restaurant] "Like me!"
"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."
Ray: "Phonetics can be a turn off."
Mark: "Depends on how you teach it, Ray."
Ray: "Most of these people [taking intro to linguistics] won't become majors—"
Mark: "And shouldn't."
"[In phonology,] you can't just say ‘Oh, that's PF.’"
[redacted]: from now on when we disagree on american english usage, i'm just going to assume i'm right on the grounds that you spell yogurt with an H
my mother: "Did you put all your candy in a bag?"
me: "Nah, I just took some wrapping paper and put it all in there."
my mother: "But it's not a bag..."
me: "It's taped together though."
my mother: "But I taped it..."
00:43:21 [me]: agh. I was stupid
00:43:33 [aladnsane]: ?
00:44:01 [aladnsane]: I mean, I believe you and all ;)
06:11:54 [Aaron]: does this make sense:
06:11:55 [Aaron]: For the sake of differentiating between participants in the pre-recorded conversation (e.g. those who sat in the recording studio and conversed) and users who have downloaded and listened to the audio file via a technological media, the terms “participants” and “users” will be used throughout this paper, respectively.
06:12:48 [me]: yes, that's perfectly clear [to me]
06:13:00 [Aaron]: shit
06:13:03 [Aaron]: if it's clear to you
06:13:07 [Aaron]: then nobody else has a chance...
"This should be a warning to all the groups out there—don't write inane lyrics when you're young, because when you're older you'll be performing them on PBS and you'll look like a fool."
(02:37:03) Adam B: What?
(02:37:27) Adam B: Are you saying I wrote OS9?
(02:38:18) Оберон: Yes.
(02:38:20) Оберон: Tell him yes.
(02:42:51) Оберон: Sure.
(02:43:08) Оберон: Perhaps Adam's true calling is less in writing code and more in writing comedy.
(02:44:17) Adam B: It's cool
(02:44:19) Adam B: Maybe he's high
(02:45:32) Оберон: Wow
(02:45:36) Оберон: no wonder everyone was asking us for weed
(02:45:45) Оберон: Adam must be telling people I'm a druggy
(02:46:19) [me]: (this is in reference to the fact that about 3 people have asked me and oberon for weed in the last 2 saturdays)
(02:46:22) Adam B: So I just re-read it
(02:47:13) Adam B: And, well, my first guess still stands
(02:47:27) Adam B: So seriously, what are you talking about, if not OS9
(02:47:32) Adam B: Which I did write, by the way
(02:47:38) Adam B: When you weren't looking
(02:47:39) [me]: no, you see, this is what we're talking about
(02:48:24) Adam B: I don't want you to think that I'm a sexually overactive president, but please define your "this" from that sentence
(02:48:48) [me]: that you wrote OS 9
(02:48:53) [me]: we're acknowledging that
(02:48:51) Adam B: Cause there was definitely no "this" (err, "that") to be referred to
(02:48:59) Adam B: Well, except for that
(02:49:02) Adam B: The OS9 thing
(02:49:06) Adam B: Okay whatever, sure
(02:49:08) Adam B: I'm flattered
(02:49:09) Adam B: Really am
(02:49:13) Adam B: Maybe you are high too
(02:49:25) Adam B: Which would explain why they asked both of you for pot, not just him
(02:51:05) Adam B: Righty-o then
(02:51:14) Adam B: So now, how did I get involved in that conversation?
(02:51:20) Adam B: And why do you think I wrote OS9?
(02:51:27) Adam B: (i.e. how did you find out about that)
(02:52:16) Adam B: Or
(02:52:28) Adam B: More fun could be watching me just type to myself in this pretty IM window
(02:52:42) Adam B: That's cool too
(02:52:47) Adam B: It's like a monologue
(02:52:51) Adam B: With an audience of 1
(02:52:55) Adam B: Well probably 2
(02:53:08) Adam B: Because Oberon is apparently monitoring this somehow too
(02:53:30) Adam B: Maybe through the ssh over unencrypted wireless through vmware and X forwarding
(02:53:32) Adam B: Or whatever that was
(02:53:34) Adam B: But he's watching
Greer: "If she ever comes back here again, I'll break her kneecaps!"
Nat: "Because that's the only thing you can reach."
(07:06:09) Kesuari: (haha, you have an american accent)
(07:07:12) Kesuari: (it's really weird, because you seem so educated :)
(04:17:24) Kesuari: o ... kay... i have come to the conclusion that you, sir, are insane, and forget the difference between yourself and the rest of the world :)
(02:30:26) [Shreyas]: wow, you brandeis folks are very beardy
(02:30:46) [Shreyas]: i guess you need the facial hair, being in the wilds of the frozen north and all
(02:30:51) [Shreyas]: insulation
(03:25:41) Aarón: youre screenshots are scary
(03:26:00) Aarón: it's like looking through the eyes of a paranoid schizophrenic
...
(03:30:27) Aarón: AH! it's 330
(03:30:42) Aarón: ok... must sleep... snow is waiting for me
(03:30:51) Aarón: i can see it building up JUST for me :)
(03:30:57) Aarón: it's calling my name
(03:31:07) Aarón: "aaaaaron, aaaaaaron.. come plaaaaaay with meeeeeE"
(03:31:16) Aarón: o wait... it's the damn pipes in my room
(03:31:23) Aarón: SHUT UP, PIPES
(03:31:40) Aarón: ok, i think I'M the paranoid schizophrenic, not your screenshot
me: "Well, he played Han Solo well."
oberon: "But it doesn't take much to play Han Solo. All it takes is walking into things. But abstract things, not literal things."
(13:11:20) Qatharsis: Your languages suffer from inbreeding, it seems.
(13:12:55) [me]: inbreeding?
(13:14:59) Qatharsis: They're all each other's brother's offspring, and the replicative deficiencies show.
(13:58:39) [me]: there's no inbreeding in the Tēlvo languages
(13:58:47) [me]: no more so than there are in any other language
(13:59:06) Qatharsis: They just look like contorted copies of each other. =P
(13:59:26) Qatharsis: And they develop pathological spelling freakages.
(14:00:07) [me]: what??
(14:00:37) Qatharsis: I mean, accented l? Hello?
(02:06:56) Casuarius: you're insane, though. i have *no* idea why you're doing this when you could be bringing about world peace or something :P
(15:21:01) Qatharsis: How come a quote is "profoundness" when it's by you, but "stupidity" otherwise?
"You look like the magic pumpkin or whatever, but blue."
"Cheerleaders are dancers who have gone retarded."
"Well then you're an ignoramus who has his cloud up his ass--head up your ass and there's a cloud up there!"
[05:49:52] (sn withheld): You're a genius
[05:49:59] (sn withheld): in that you're insane in the same way my operating system is
"They are not interested in many things which are interesting. And that's the American way."