Cinga: Ah. Now I get a java.net:UnknownHostException.
Cinga: There seems to be an Exception for every situation.
Rentantilus: it's like the English language!
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 22 August 2003
[edit] added: 22 August 2003
[edit] added: 22 August 2003
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[link]
heard: unknown
[edit] added: 19 August 2003
[comment] [rate] 2/5
[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."
Robert Wright, in his article "Quest for the Mother Tongue", The Atlantic Monthly, April 1991.
linguistics, language, randomness, obviousness
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heard: unknown
[edit] added: 19 August 2003
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 19 August 2003
"They are not interested in many things which are interesting. And that's the American way."
Vitaly V. Shevoroshkin, referring to American linguists
wisdom, politics, linguistics, people, provincialism, patriotism, sadness, indifference, insults
[link]
heard: 12 August 2003
[edit] added: 19 August 2003
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 19 August 2003
Person behind register at Lowes: "I hear thunder."
My father, a minute later, sarcastically, and in jest: "Well, the rain has to come from somewhere."
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heard: 11 August 2003
[edit] added: 19 August 2003
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 19 August 2003
"That ad is a nightmare—I can't imagine quilting toilet-paper for a living."
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heard: 15 August 2003
[edit] added: 15 August 2003
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 15 August 2003
(02:54:22) Jade Solitude: Green's a good colour.
(02:54:39) Jade Solitude: I rather like this song.
(02:54:59) Jade Solitude: I just bought new speaker system, too.,
a typical conversation with Michael
randomness, music, diatribes, nonsequiturs, typical-conversations
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heard: 7 August 2003
[edit] added: 7 August 2003
[comment] [rate] 2/5
[edit] added: 7 August 2003
(05:17:01) Kesuari: umm... clag is a kind of glue that children in kinder/grade prep/1/2 use... i can't describe it any better, but i mean it seems similar to that.
(05:17:11) [me]: paste
(05:17:32) [me]: My first thought with that word was glue-like stuff
(05:17:46) [me]: though I don't think I've heard that word before in my life
(05:17:50) [me]: it's an onomotopoeia for glue!
(05:18:08) Kesuari: do you mean you haven't heard the word clag?
(05:18:10) Kesuari: or claggy?
(05:18:12) [me]: or maybe it's because of its striking phonetic similarity to coagulate
(05:18:16) [me]: nope
(05:18:23) [me]: hey, you don't know what gyros are..
(05:18:30) Kesuari: true. what's a gyros?
[link]
heard: 7 August 2003
[edit] added: 7 August 2003
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 7 August 2003
(05:04:59) ***Kesuari wonders why america is the centre of the world if they don't have fish and chips, pineapple on hamburgers, or affordable buyable nice bread.
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heard: 6 August 2003
[edit] added: 6 August 2003
[comment] [rate] 2/5
[edit] added: 6 August 2003
(00:21:26) Kathryn: .ther'es no latin for homepage, you know
(00:23:02) [me]: I bet someone's standardised some of this stuff actually
(00:23:17) Kathryn: i'm sure they have
(00:23:33) Kathryn: but those words weren't in my dictionary, and i'd rather make stuff up
(00:23:58) Kathryn: it lets me pretend i'm creating something in a subject that's older than God
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heard: 1 August 2003
[edit] added: 31 July 2003
[comment] [rate] no rating
[edit] added: 31 July 2003
(21:09:04) [me]: it's qt.. is it in python?
(21:09:51) Kesuari: no, i think i'ts just qt
(21:09:59) [me]: what language?
(21:10:10) Kesuari: python
