"Languages are big."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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other categories found with "obviousness": stupidity (7), linguistics (5), language (5), quotes (3), confusion (3)
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[edit] added: 19 August 2003
"Needless to say, a poem in any proto-language translated into one of its decendants after ten or fifteen millennia have passed, will no longer rhyme."
[edit] added: 11 February 2007
"Welcome to America. Now let's move on."
[edit] added: 3 April 2007
Jonathan: "So I was working on my thesis the other day, and I had to read through all this stuff."
Stefan: "Dude. You're in grad school. You're working on your thesis. And you had to read stuff? No way!"
Jonathan: "No, but like, I have to read through all this stuff to get data from it."
Stefan: ...
[edit] added: 26 March 2007
Jurgen: "So I don't mess it up, how do you pronounce your name?"
Dan: "Dan."
[edit] added: 11 November 2006
[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."
[edit] added: 27 October 2006
"And now that I don't get stoned anymore, I do my dishes every day!"
[edit] added: 14 October 2006
"That's interesting: if you eat spicy food with the back of your mouth, the back part gets burned."
[edit] added: 8 February 2006
05:28:39 [Tristan]: otherwise it'd just be a co-incidence
05:29:16 [me]: what's a coïncidence?
05:29:27 [Tristan]: when two incidences coincide?
05:29:34 [me]: …
[edit] added: 5 April 2005
(05:31:53) Laura C: people say really weird shit in your presence.
(05:33:57) [me]: such as?
(05:34:08) [me]: (and yeah, tell me about it...)
(05:34:45) Laura C: that made no sense.
(05:36:49) [me]: ?
(05:41:01) Laura C: 1. "such as?" implies that you need an example of how people say really weird shit in your presence.
2. "and yeah, tell me about it" suggests that realize that people say really weird shit in your presence.
3. your professor said "The raw act of boy fellating man would not go down well in mainstream America. No pun intended." hsfdkljsdhfksdfjhksdjfhsdkjfh!
4. you run a page of quotes of wierd shit people say in your presence.
(05:41:31) [me]: point made.
[edit] added: 3 April 2005
"You see, cats are a lot more resourceful than plants."
[edit] added: 3 April 2005
"You see, cats are a lot more resourceful than plants."
[edit] added: 25 November 2004
Jonathan: "Whoa, there's all sorts of junk in there."
Vickie: "Yeah. It's a trash can."
Jonathan: "Well, there's like styrofoam and banana peals."
[edit] added: 9 June 2003
(22:54:11) Verdant Forest: I remember when I first started using AOL when I was 10...
(22:54:27) Verdant Forest: I would go into chatrooms and people would be saying "IM me! im me!" and I would just wonder
(22:54:37) Verdant Forest: Why do they need to clarify that they are themselves?
[edit] added: unknown
"'Hehe', you know, four simple letters."
[edit] added: 18 December 2007
Jonathan: "Hey, look, the eternal flame's going. That's good to know."
Lara: "Yeah, that's different."
[edit] added: 30 May 2010
(13:44:30) jonorthwash: anyway, the Kyrgyz side of the invitation's going to be very different
(13:44:42) Aaron B: make sure to put the same date ;)
[edit] added: 8 July 2011
(03:31:47) spectre: i don't like having the negative morpheme in different places
(03:31:56) firespeaker: but this is Turkic
[edit] added: 16 February 2012
me: "Why do I suddenly want coffee?"
Andy: "Well, you do have cake. Or is that banana bread?"
me: "No, it's coffee cake... [sudden realization]"
[edit] added: 7 February 2021
(19:05:24) spectie: you could remove the 'in langs'
(19:05:31) spectie: what else would TR vowel systems be identified in?
(19:05:32) spectie: buckets?
(19:05:50) spectie: insurgent groups/
(19:06:01) spectie: water supply?