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."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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other categories found with "tautologies": religion (3), irony (3), linguistics (3), culture (2), weirdness (2)
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heard: 26 January 2012
[edit] added: 1 February 2012
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[edit] added: 1 February 2012
Андрей: "А почему свинину не кушаешь?"
я: "Моя мама еврейка, и поэтому у нас такая семейная традиция есть."
Андрей: "А мой дед был Удмурт, и поэтому я все кушаю."
Андрей
food, religion, family, tautologies, nonsequiturs, machoism, SSSR, culture, animals, ethnocentrism, russian
[link]
heard: 25 January 2012
[edit] added: 25 January 2012
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[edit] added: 25 January 2012
"Если человек не понимает слово, это не проблема перевода - это проблема человека."
Варвара
misunderstandings, russian, translation, multilingualisms, stupidity, sadness, tautologies, people, computers
[link]
heard: 9 April 2011
[edit] added: 17 May 2011
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[edit] added: 17 May 2011
Monolingual people are so paranoid!
BP
tautologies, sadness, insults, insightfulness, ethnocentrism, cynicism, culture, patriotism, language
[link]
heard: 4 April 2009
[edit] added: 4 April 2009
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[edit] added: 4 April 2009
(16:51:14) cassowary: ause always uses the ame/bre option that is more logical
(16:51:22) cassowary: an if neither is logical, we use another one, that's logicaller
[link]
heard: 16 May 2008
[edit] added: 16 May 2008
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[edit] added: 16 May 2008
(21:47:20) Sarah: I think I'd have rather went to the leper colony with my parents than be swamped by old ladies.
(21:48:33) Sarah: The leper colony is historical, therefore cool.
(21:48:40) Sarah: Old people are NOT historical, unless they have neat stories...they're just old.
[link]
heard: 9 April 2007
[edit] added: 9 April 2007
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[edit] added: 9 April 2007
Annex door creaks
Derek & Jonathan, in unison: "Ghosts!"
Derek: "Truth by concensus!"
[link]
heard: 15 January 2007
[edit] added: 15 January 2007
[comment] [rate] 1/5
[edit] added: 15 January 2007
(19:48:35) [Aladnsane]: Kosher slaughter generally seems a good idea to me. Simple. Effective. Not Traif.
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heard: 4 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
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[edit] added: 9 January 2007
"[In phonology,] you can't just say ‘Oh, that's PF.’"
Paul Kiparsky, at the 2007 LSA annual meeting
conferences, irony, insults, wisdom, linguistics, tautologies
[link]
heard: 1 June 2006
[edit] added: 2 June 2006
[edit] added: 2 June 2006
"This is a take-home final, which means it's not a sit-down final."
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[link]
heard: 30 May 2006
[edit] added: 31 May 2006
[comment] [rate] 2/5
[edit] added: 31 May 2006
"It's necessary to separate ‘French’ from what I call ‘Non-French.’ There's a dichotomy and I think a lot of people who study Romance linguistics don't realise this."
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heard: 6 October 2004
[edit] added: 20 October 2004
[comment] [rate] 5/5
[edit] added: 20 October 2004
"Repetitions of sounds, words, morphemes, blah blah blah."