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.’"
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 25 February 2011
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"Neuron - check, Pyscho-neuron - X,.... ‘Hey, this looks like it was graded by a folklorist!’"
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heard: 23 February 2011
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"I have problems with gender."
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heard: 10 February 2011
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"It's like he's the movie Speed, but a Mongolist."
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heard: 10 February 2011
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"What we need is a friendly rogue nation."
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heard: 10 February 2011
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"In Azərbaycan when someone is stupid we call them a Mongol."
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heard: 31 January 2011
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"I think hung over driving, while not as dangerous as drunk driving, is probably at least as non-productive. The other day I sat at stop sign through two songs waiting for it to turn green."
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heard: 13 January 2011
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CB: "There's one rule about language comparison—"
Niko: "Don't trust a Russian?"
russian, linguistics, hyperbole, insightfulness, SSSR, provincialism, pessimism, insults, incompetence, ethnocentrism, cynicism, gradschool, bad-ideas, academia
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heard: 14 January 2011
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"Шинэ семестр, шинэ итгэл..."
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heard: 14 January 2011
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me: "Do you know ‘Children of a Lesser God’?"
Kris: "Is it a movie about mormons or something?"
