"Okay, look dude: one thigh, two thigh, butt, back."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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other categories found with "misparsings": ambiguity (6), sex (5), linguistics (4), inappropriateness (4), sketchiness (3)
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[edit] added: 28 February 2007
[edit] added: 17 May 2008
(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"
[edit] added: 25 November 2007
Thatcher: "And her father was the largest contractor in Kenya—"
Colin: "He was huge!"
Thatcher: "Yeah, he was like 400lbs."
Colin: [buffs up, effects burly voice] "Want me to build you a shed!?"
[edit] added: 9 October 2006
Derek: "Look, cheerleaders."
Jonathan: "And they're not wearing their uniforms."
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[edit] added: 13 August 2005
Nic: "Me & Kristin hung out and watched the movie Sideways. So we got to spend time together."
Jonathan: "Mm. … Sideways?"
[edit] added: 4 July 2005
"Laura, no fucking fire."
[edit] added: 12 April 2005
(23:26:57) Ian: so what was that book that fucking chomsky would be more useful than?
[edit] added: 12 April 2005
(00:05:16) Jess: fucking chomsky would be more useful than this book
[edit] added: 15 May 2008
(19:13:11) kesuari: well, i suppose they say one way to become a great artist is to copy everyone else
(19:13:26) kesuari: well, copy the great artists i mean
(19:13:37) kesuari: someone who wanted to paint well shouldn't copy any drawings i've done
[edit] added: 20 July 2009
(01:03:16) kesuari: it's very difficult to say "psycholinguistics" differently from "psycho linguistics", and a lot of people think that's an apt description of me/what i do
[edit] added: 1 August 2012
my father: "Tell him he doesn't know how to pronounce the Queen's English."
Tolgonay: "Say ‘the Queen's English’!"
[edit] added: 18 April 2014
Fran: [həvjəgɔʔˈbɪː]
Cashier: "What's [bɪː]?"