The Official ZBB Quote Thread

[linguoboy]

One that crossed my mind this morning: lich. It feels like long-lost words dragged out of the grave by Dungeons and Dragons (pun intended) should somehow fail to qualify - but on the other hand it seems to have caught on, in fantasy genre jargon, for a specific type of undead creature. And I don't see how that doesn't meet the spirit of this thread (again, pun intended).

Way to show faith in your audience!

[Kereb]

you do remember where you are, right

[Viktor77]

There's a pattern! A pattern!

I HAVE FOUND THE PATTERN!

Wait, if you tilt your head just so, squint a little... and... wait... there is something there.

[Ser]

You should've clarified those points are all recent murders in Saginaw.

[Shrdlu]

And a squirrel!

[linguoboy]

If you want to see ghetto black people (note: there's a significant difference here, like white people and white trash)

Stay classy, ZBB!

looks to me like he *was* being classy. perhaps he's being too racy for you?

[Hallow XIII]

the people are stupid and have no idea what's good, or what is outrageous

Because true.

[Drydic]

Really, he lost me with

Many years ago I noticed strange similarities between Irish and Serbian mythology, language, toponymes and hydronymes

What the heck is a "hydronym" even supposed to be? A word named after a body of water?

I think it means a name for a body of water, like the names given to rivers.

Ladies and Gentleman, Eddy schooled someone!

Clearly the End Times are upon us.

[AK-92]

What the heck is a "hydronym" even supposed to be? A word named after a body of water?

I think it means a name for a body of water, like the names given to rivers.

Ladies and Gentleman, Eddy schooled someone!

Clearly the End Times are upon us.

[Thry]

For truth xD

The problem with current keyboards is that there's no <ŀl> (ela geminada in 2 spaces) key, so we type <l·l> (ela geminada in 3 spaces).

Hah espera sentado... as of 2013, I still have my surname with an <ñ> appear as an error in almost every webpage! It comes out either as an <n>, or as an error (a square or ! or sth xD).

Somebody change the official language of the US to Vietnamese, that'll fix the Unicode problem, you'll see.

[Izambri]

Yes, they can.

[Hallow XIII]

<@Kereb> schadenfreude is a great word
<@Kereb> but english defeated them by shortening it to "lulz"

[Qwynegold]

Kar Vankuver, ki don ker varo anias burasona irekan endosge. Nil cal kralos, nil on iralos.
at Vancouver | DEFART weather of this day good medium be-PAST.PFV || not more hot | not around cold
Here in Vancouver, it was pleasant today. Not too hot, not cold at all.

DEFART

A nam wanpuchet a.
A nam wanpuchet a.
A nam wanpuchet a.
NEG 1-NOM laughing-IMP NEG
I will not laugh.
I will not laugh.
I will not laugh.

[Hallow XIII]

yeah, what doesn't appear in NWC langs

vowels

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I'm disappointed, Nort. What happened to your usual inventive invective?

[clawgrip]

Also, the knight's code says rape is good.

I demand a citation for that second one.

^[1]Sir Gawain's mother, in Peredur vab Efrawc, Peniarth 14, page 183, lines 4-5.

[Hallow XIII]

<Cev> I'm saying an aposteriori conlang descended from Sumerian spoken by some hilltribe in Kurdistan would be a neat idea
<H13> yes
<H13> go, Cev
<Cev> no
<Cev> I have enough projects on my plate atm
<Cev> I have to learn German and Persian and also get through this book of Latin readings
<Cev> don't got time for no conlanging
<Cev> now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna spend 4 hours watching a video of a person playing Super Meat Boy

[Drydic]

srs quote warning

ah so he was still on earth that recently
why would he even be emotionally invested in an election on a planet he was soon to leave in REAL SPACESHIPS I TOTALLY KNOW EXACTLY HOW THEY WORK BUT NO I CAN'T DISCLOSE THAT OR TELL YOU HOW THIS WAS MADE KNOWN TO ME IT WOULD PUT YOU IN DANGER WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE ME WAKE UP SHEEPLE actually it's pretty sad now that I think about it there is a considerable chance that he's shitting in an orange crate under an overpass somewhere with a shopping buggy full of broken television parts so maybe it's mean to mock the non-eddy mentally ill since there but for the grace of athe go any of us numsayin

[tiramisu]

<Cev> "Sogdian is basically an OV language..."
<Cev> omg
<Cev> the only language that doesn't allow subjects
<Cev> I bet the Sogdians view the universe as agentless and have a very accepting philosophy toward troubles
<Cev> Because we are all just patients and undergoers in life

[Hallow XIII]

ach gefickent schiesse, bin du haben enen krehtstedlang das nich ist retartet deutsch

[vampireshark]

Do you analyze every joke you hear like this?

1) It's not a joke. It's a travesty. Happily, it's so poor that it's not worth taking offense.
2) I don't believe you have any Welsh friends.
3) I don't believe you have any friends.

[Zontas]

Do you analyze every joke you hear like this?

1) It's not a joke. It's a travesty. Happily, it's so poor that it's not worth taking offense.
2) I don't believe you have any Welsh friends.
3) I don't believe you have any friends.

DAMMIT! I was just about to post that!

[Drydic]

While it's all fine and dandy busting out the skepticism when it comes to marginal distinction ... , but that doesn't mean that we can seriously claim that our 'phonetic intuitions' can't be trusted in clear-cut cases, like /k/ vs /m/ or, in this case, /@/ vs /I/.

"Evidence is irrelevant if I believe really really hard in my preferred answer!" is an even less valid argument than KathAveara's word salad, and that is truly impressive.

And said word salad is

As far as I'm concerned, the second vowel in roses is not a shame at all.

[Whimemsz]

I have never understood the expression "it begs the question". I allways wonder: "What question?". Is "it begs the question" an expression that means something else than it logically means or is one actually supposed to understand what question the other guy thinks of? And, if the latter, how shall one think to understand what question he thinks of?

imagine if there were some sort of international network, a kind of... 'internet' if you will, or 'world wide web', through which almost any information could be accessed from almost anywhere. No, dream further - imagine that there were some kind of readily-accessible lexicon of words and sayings, perhaps purchasable in book form or, even better, accessible through this 'internet'. Imagine, then, that this lexicon had a page which was about five seconds away from the average internet user's homepage. IMAGINE

IMAGINE THAT

[Xephyr]

Ang made a funny.

<Cev> damn
<Cev> the Indus, Ganges, Yangtze, Mekong, and Yellow rivers all have their headwaters in Tibet
<Anguipes> Tibet is pissing civilization