"Kazakh is sweet piece of cake comparing to Russian.. Russian is even more harder than English..."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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other categories found with "non-nativisms": language (6), linguistics (5), phonetics (3), provincialism (3), badness (2)
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[edit] added: 11 February 2007
[edit] added: 6 November 2007
"If they wanted it to be pronounced [latkəz], they should've spelled it ‘lutkers’."
[edit] added: 15 May 2007
Chuck: "There's Low German forms, Middle High German forms, Upper High German forms, and even Anglo-Frisian forms. This is weird!"
Derek: "Maybe a non-native speaker wrote it."
Chuck: "Or they had some pretty heavy stuff back then."
[edit] added: 26 March 2007
Jurgen: "So I don't mess it up, how do you pronounce your name?"
Dan: "Dan."
[edit] added: 18 March 2007
"But in America, there are lots of—how do you call them?—homosexuals."
[edit] added: 19 February 2007
"Let me tell you, Chuck-for-the-buck is the best."
[edit] added: 17 September 2010
[Niko says something syntactically odd in English]
[Everyone pauses and frowns, including Niko]
Niko: "Eh, L9 interference."
[edit] added: 6 April 2012
(00:10:10) selimcan: oh, I have to make a small break and grep some coffee
[edit] added: 13 April 2012
"The Spanish speakers are all like ‘it's close enough—we'll just make a little phonological conversion chart: «insert a bunch of /ʒ/ and /ão/»’"
[edit] added: 12 November 2012
[edit] added: 1 February 2013
"So Korean dramas are all the rage in lots of countries in Asia. And in China, when they imitate this recurring phrase from the Korean dramas—[Korean...], ‘I love you’—because that's what they do in Korean dramas, they love each other—they repeat it with an affricate."
[edit] added: 18 April 2014
Fran: [həvjəgɔʔˈbɪː]
Cashier: "What's [bɪː]?"
[edit] added: 4 June 2014
Inari: "Wait..."
Fran: "Are we in Finnish?"
Jonathan: "No, we're in English with Finnish pronunciation."
Tommi: "That's the bestest!"