Jonathan: "Maybe they just think that */p/ turned to /b/ in Germanic. But it only went half way."
Derek: "Yeah, that's how they got þorn."
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Jonathan: "Maybe they just think that */p/ turned to /b/ in Germanic. But it only went half way."
Derek: "Yeah, that's how they got þorn."
"Greek and Latin show ablaut as well, but not as strongly as Germanic. No pun intended."
"Somehow I think the soda market is more fluid than the music industry."
"I can just see Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin sitting down over a glass of Sam Adams."
1c a song? That explains the pricing of Apple hardware---somewhere in their books, they're confusing dollars and cents!
Jurgen: "You know, some people say I'm hard—I don't think I'm that hard."
Jonathan: "Well, you're flexible."
classmate: "You're the xantham gum of professors."
Avram: "Flexible, but still with integrity."
"The raw act of boy fellating man would not go down well in mainstream America. No pun intended."
"I smell incense. That incensitive bastard."
(17:14:36) [me]: I wonder if Turkish F-type keyboards are related to Turkish F-type prisons
(17:14:49) kesuari: ? i think the F comes from first letter
(17:14:54) [me]: oh
(17:15:07) [me]: what about the prisons?
(17:15:17) kesuari: they probably don't have any keys
"I think they're going a little overboard—no pun intended—on this ocean theme."
anon1: "Whatever, I don't have a problem with a girl being flirty and hitting me if I say something stupid. It's not like she'd actually beat me."
anon2: "Yeah, you'd just stand up and grab her boob."
anon1: "That's so wrong."
anon2: "Tit for tat."
Stefan: "Okay everyone, remember, besh barmaq at my place on Friday."
Michael: "More like yigirme besh barmaq."
(23:53:48) Derek: That's a really well preserved blade
(23:53:53) Derek: for how old it is
(23:56:13) [me]: it's metal.
(23:57:07) Derek: "it's metal" doesn't cut it
(23:57:12) Derek: because iron rusts
(23:57:18) Derek: and steel rusts really fast
(23:57:27) Derek: ha - doesn't cut it
(23:57:29) Derek: I made a funny
(18:43:06) Mark: There comes a point where you can reduce anything to anything. I mean, reconstructions of reconstructions of reconstructions - they're building a PIE in the sky
"Well, Scheme is kinda Tclish."
(19:13:28) [me]: yeah, they have a lot of quays in canada
(19:13:39) [Tristan]: probably to keep the americans out
(03:17:16) [me]: never heard of æ tensing? ;)
(03:17:55) Qatharsis: D'oh, of course. It's the opposite of q crumbling. ;)
(18:39:23) Qatharsis: There's a Swiss pen&pencil company called Caran d'Ache.
(22:39:11) [me]: well, we all know the French are chauvinists. They even invented the word.
"French can be said to be ‘oxytonic.’ Not to be confused with ‘Occitan.’"
"In French, we'll find out that it underwent two phases of apocope; I had a student once who said, ‘this sounds like the apocalypse.’"
(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
Баха: "Ты исследователь?"
Jonathan: "Да."
Баха: "Или шпион?"
Jonathan: "Ладно, я шпион."
Баха: "Где ты учился тогда?"
Jonathan: "Назвается ‘Шпионский Институт Америки.’"
Баха: "А! Мы всегда знали!"
Jonathan: "Ты знаешь как сокращается называние этого института? C.I.A.—‘Шпионский Институт Америки.’"
"Basically, if you can read a double entendre into it, do it. No pun intended."
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]: …
[02:51] Aaron B : you should get a cool linguistic alias
[02:51] Aaron B: like, you know how weathermen always just "happen" to have a geological reference in their names?
[02:51] Aaron B: around me we have "johnny mountain"
[02:51] Aaron B: and "dallas storm"
[02:51] Aaron B: you can be like...
[02:51] Aaron B: "jon minimality"
[02:52] Aaron B: or like "Al O. Phone"
[02:52] Aaron B: (short for Albert Optimality Phone)
(16:39:22) [me]: and also, scratch the "isn't sex" part. it is sex, just not full-blown sex. (pun *NOT* intended)
(16:39:36) Qatharsis: LOL
(16:40:11) Qatharsis: Yeah, such unintended puns *suck*, don't they.
(16:40:21) [me]: hehe
(16:40:48) Qatharsis: You had it coming. ;-)
(16:40:54) [me]: oy
(01:41:03) [me]: my modem doesn't like handshaking
(01:41:18) Kesuari: my cat doesn't either.
Matt: "Wait, how does nudity get rid of variables?"
oberon: "Because clothes are variable—everyone's always wearing different things."
Jonathan: "What's Microsoft encumbered technology?"
oberon: "SOAP. That's why Nat never showers."
Jonathan: "Wait, what? ... Oh."
oberon: "I think chunks of shampoo are owned by Sun."
"This is a reminder that all electronic devices must be turned off. This includes Blackberries, strawberries, blueberries, and lemon meringue pies."
(17:29:30) Michael T: vowels are always plotting against me.. especially ɯ. you never know what ɯ is thinking.
prof. Kara: "Benjamin, what's regressive assimilation?"
...
prof. Kara: "Well, you could say, when the Chinese borrow from the Tibetans, for example."
(16:45:11) cassowary: he was being a prick and thought putting a smiley on would make him not a prick
(16:45:19) [me]: yeah
(16:45:22) [me]: people do that a lot
(16:45:27) [me]: I know people who do that irl
(16:45:46) cassowary: what, they say "you're an idiot colon closing bracket"?
(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
(23:26:35) kesuari: "Use boldface for certain forms in Oscan and Umbrian, and to distinguish Gaulish and other forms originally written in the Greek alphabet." i don't suppose you have any idea why?
...
(23:30:58) kesuari: (actually, that's pretty ironic: using bold instead of italics for italic languages like oscan and umbrian)
"Yeah, someone's throwing lemon harangue pies at me."
Тэмүүжин: "‘Дулаахан’ means ‘slow’, right?"
Everyone: "No."
Тэмүүжин: "‘Дулаан’ then?"
... [everyone pauses]
Тэмүүжин: "I'm getting colder, aren't I?"
"I don't think I would've gotten in a car with that guy even if I did know his name. That's probably just because the sketch artists made him look extra sketchy."
"...Which is probably why they call them sketch artists."
Baatar: "It says here that the republican candidates were going ‘reverse trick-or-treating’."
me: "What does that mean?"
Baatar: "They call it ‘trick-or-campaigning’. But it should be ‘trick and campaigning’."
me: "it's completely predictable"
me: "which isn't what most linguists would expect"
Baatar: "or isnt what they would predict"
"I have problems with gender."
Traci: "So yeah, you should submit to the Online Working Papers!"
Elijah: "You see, that has the word ‘work’ in it..."
Aaron A: "We should rename it ‘Relaxing Papers in Linguistics.’"
я: "Здесь, когда хотим повернуться нет никакого светофора, а раньше, когда хотели просто побыстрее ехать, полно было. Вот закон подлости!"
Илшат: "Да, вот единственный закон который в России работает."
(04:14:07) نىكو: cypriot also has no question particle
(04:14:10) jonathan: oh???
(04:14:18) jonathan: (pun not intended)
(00:10:10) selimcan: oh, I have to make a small break and grep some coffee
Jonathan: "Суп жақсы екен."
Қали: "Суп емес—повор жақсы."
CB: "Niko, are you straight on your paper?"
Niko: "Yeah. But that's the only thing I'm straight on."
"No, no Noğays have ever wanted to sleep with me. To my knowledge."
(13:11:51) spectie: қ:ғ {а}: ь: {☭}: >: {S}: ы: ь:ь {n}:н ы: __HFST_TWOLC_.#.
(13:12:00) spectie: uh oh, communism in our transducer
(13:17:45) selimcan: Фонологи всех стран, объединяйтесь! :)
(00:15:16) alexr: ... but it's looking like -- and this is kind of interesting -- using an HMM is actually slightly worse than always just taking the most-frequent-translation.
(00:16:04) [jonathan]: HMM?
(00:16:08) alexr: hidden markov model.
(00:16:36) [jonathan]: ah
(00:17:14) [jonathan]: hrm
(00:17:17) alexr: No, hmm.
"On the bright side—uhh, inverse pun not intended—the sun has set so it won't be as hot out."
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."
(23:34:45) vigneshv: 140 px :D
(23:34:54) firespeaker: vigneshv: I can think of words longer than that
(23:35:01) firespeaker: I have some 153px words
(23:35:17) sushain: (10:35:00 PM) firespeaker: I have some 153px words <- wait, was that random?
(23:35:30) sushain: or do you actually have a 153px word
(23:35:30) firespeaker: i.e., not a good measure of word-length ;)
(23:35:33) sushain: LOL
(23:35:34) sushain: ok
(23:35:35) vigneshv: ill change
(23:35:40) firespeaker: point made? ;)
"You know what they say—everyone has their own o-pinyin about how to transliterate Chinese."
"I forget if oygn is spelled with an ayin or not."