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[link] heard: 30 July 2005
[edit] added: 31 July 2005

"Here, I'll recite a Pushkin poem. Say one and I'll repeat it."

Noél
language, russian, craziness, insanity, swseel
[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 31 July 2005
[edit] added: 31 July 2005

"Yes! I have crushed another hope of innovation!"

linguistics, technology, pessimism
[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 25 July 2005
[edit] added: 25 July 2005

[17:03] Aaron B: *dork*

[17:03] Aaron B: not that that's a bad thing, mind you

[17:03] Aaron B: given, i heard a radio ad and thought about phonological queues

geekiness, linguistics, language, sadness, gradschool
[comment] [rate] 2/5


[link] heard: 21 July 2005
[edit] added: 25 July 2005

"Don't swallow endings, Scott. Otherwise you'll be getting fat."

Zaure, to Scott
language, kazakh, swseel, food
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 25 July 2005
[edit] added: 25 July 2005

"Measuring an artlang by the number of speakers is like measuring the importance of a painting by the number of postcards sold with its picture on it."

Jan van Steenbergen
language, analogies, artsiness, wisdom, conlangs
[comment] [rate] 3/5


[link] heard: 16 July 2005
[edit] added: 17 July 2005

Jonathan: "Yeah, there's something about you that says Ohio."

Patrick: "Probably me, since I'm always talking about the place."

Patrick
provincialism
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[link] heard: 13 July 2005
[edit] added: 13 July 2005

"I want my genie to come."

Scott, in response to learning that "my genie comes" means "I'm mad" in Kazakh
swseel, weirdness, sex, magic, language, kazakh, inappropriateness, anger
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[link] heard: 12 July 2005
[edit] added: 12 July 2005

Laura [03:49]: If there were a vampire come to get me, he wouldn't be able to sleep for days i drink so much coffee

Laura [03:50]: JOLT GUM IS DELICIOUS

food, caffeine, scariness, death, sleep
[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 12 July 2005
[edit] added: 12 July 2005

me [01:31]: check check check check it out

me [01:31]: find out what what what it's all about

Aaron B [01:32]: if you never do that again, it would be ok

me [01:32]: okay, I promise

me [01:32]: we coo now?

Aaron B [01:33]: yeah

me [01:33]: dat be chill mah homester

Aaron B [01:33]: uh

Aaron B [01:33]: we not chill no more

ghetto-talk, non-p.c.ness, music, quotes
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 0 July 2005
[edit] added: 11 July 2005

"You are not the only victim of the Russian language."

Zaure
kazakh, badness, patriotism, language, russian, swseel, SSSR, turkic
[comment] [rate] 5/5



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