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"In Japan, I met people who had made rice makers their personal bitch: they made bread, cookies, brownies, and baked potatoes in a rice maker."

"Is this divided into mes+es or mese+s? This is what grown people spend their time on."

"Positing *o is like positing Ident-Germanic and saying that among Uralic languages, Finnish has it most highly ranked."

"French can be said to be ‘oxytonic.’ Not to be confused with ‘Occitan.’"

"In French, we'll find out that it underwent two phases of apocope; I had a student once who said, ‘this sounds like the apocalypse.’"

"I got cold, instead of hot. I asked for a little whipped cream—and got a lot."

"This guy could kick your ass—he's a muscle-bound semanticist."

"Please, no more climatology."

"There's really no solution to anything."