"Positing *o is like positing Ident-Germanic and saying that among Uralic languages, Finnish has it most highly ranked."
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other categories found with "scandinavia": language (8), linguistics (5), sadness (4), stupidity (4), provincialism (3)
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[edit] added: 1 May 2006
[edit] added: 20 February 2006
20:58:04 [me]: *moves to Iceland*
20:58:15 [Tristan]: what, you can do that just by saying it over IM? :)
20:58:27 [me]: hey, it was a performative sentence :)
20:58:40 [Tristan]: iceland has the 7th highest GDP per capita, apparently
20:58:46 [Tristan]: performative?
20:58:52 [Tristan]: (is that a word?)
20:59:04 [me]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative
20:59:08 [me]: wikipedia thinks so :)
21:00:20 [Tristan]: hm, interesting, so by saying "*moves to iceland*" it actually caused you to move to iceland? :)
21:01:15 [Tristan]: *moves to iceland*
21:01:20 [Tristan]: nah, didn't seem to work :(
21:01:29 [Tristan]: obviously not a perfomative in my dialect :)
[edit] added: 6 November 2003
(03:32:19) [me]: heh. Norwegian is a funny language
(03:32:28) Оберон: lol, yes.
(03:32:33) Оберон: thanks for pointing that out
(03:32:35) Оберон: or something
(03:33:16) [me]: ack, too much Norwegian. Need Silly Wizard
(03:33:45) Оберон: lol
(03:34:44) [me]: mmm, Macedonian
(03:34:52) Оберон: lol
(03:35:23) Оберон: at first, "(03:34) [jonathan]: mmm, Macedonian" looks like a random quote
(03:35:28) Оберон: but with some creative editing we have:
(03:35:42) Оберон:
(03:33) [jonathan]: I like the taste of European flesh
(03:34) [jonathan]: mmm, Macedonian
[edit] added: 27 May 2006
"The Danes haven't pronounced all the letters in their language for centuries."
[edit] added: 15 March 2007
"No, you see, it doesn't work that way—it's dark half the year, so you commit suicide, and the other half of the year, it's light, and you're dead."
[edit] added: 27 May 2006
Rianna: "I don't even speak Danish!"
Jonathan: "Have you ever studied Danish?"
Rianna: "No, but still… I can't even read it. Out loud."
[edit] added: 10 February 2008
(18:11:23) Amanda: you meet the most random people in the most random countries
(18:11:49) Amanda: like, i've never met a norwegian person EVER, and you meet one in like, east bum, planet jupiter
(18:11:58) Amanda: ... i say this bc i forget which country you're in now
[edit] added: 24 February 2008
(02:21:33) Rianna: i'm hungry for something, but i'm highly unsure what
(02:22:20) Rianna: but i dunno, i don't wanna cook up pea soup now
(02:22:40) [me]: well, bawırsaq might be good
(02:22:46) [me]: I had some really good boorsoq today
(02:23:01) [me]: bog'irsoq isn't too hard to make
(02:23:05) [me]: I have a recipe
(02:23:09) [me]: though I've never actually tried it
(02:23:19) Rianna: mitä vittuu toi o?
(02:23:30) [me]: a type of fried dough / bread
(02:23:31) [me]: kind of
(02:23:37) Rianna: hahaha
(02:23:38) Rianna: nice
(02:23:41) [me]: ?
(02:23:50) Rianna: you answered my question :-p
(02:23:54) [me]: ..?
(02:23:55) [me]: so?
(02:24:08) Rianna: it was in another language..?
(02:24:13) [me]: oh shit
(02:24:15) [me]: wtf
(02:24:19) [me]: okay
(02:24:26) Rianna: i just asked you what the fuck is that
(02:24:30) Rianna: and you just answered that
(02:24:30) [me]: I guess I'm just used to guessing what people are saying half the time anyway
(02:24:46) [me]: don't really pay attention to how they say it unless I'm in linguist mode
(02:24:47) Rianna: you should put that on your quotes page to show off your mad skillz
(02:25:16) Rianna: you're a....demigod among linguists, Jonathan
[edit] added: 9 March 2008
(03:02:05) Sarah: How the fuck do I ignore a woman who now calls me ABBA because she's convinced that TikTak is secretly ABBA?
[edit] added: 21 October 2009
(04:31:14) kesuari: i could've sworn that on the heirarchy of cool letters, ø was way higher than ö
[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!"
[edit] added: 3 June 2016
(13:29:23) Фрэн: now i just need to get the irish converted into IPA
(13:29:29) Фрэн: so i can convert it into finnish