The Official ZBB Quote Thread

[Io]

Berek, Pthag, Nortaneous, that's a hell of a overreaction. Why did you take him seriously?!?!

[Viktor77]

Berek, Pthag, Nortaneous, that's a hell of a overreaction. Why did you take him seriously?!?!

Good question, why did you take me seriously? Did I sound the least bit serious to you? For fuck sakes I was using Pthug logic people, that's the furthest thing from seriousness.

[Pthagnar]

I have the take it like a man approach, such as when I laughed at my best friend for wearing a wrist brace when he cracked his wrist.

[Kereb]

Berek, Pthag, Nortaneous, that's a hell of a overreaction. Why did you take him seriously?!?!

Because it's "Ha ha, only serious." As it always is with Viktor.

[Pthagnar]

[Xephyr]

[Pthagnar]

super subpixel rendering!!!!!!!

[Nortaneous]

this thread is much funnier now than it was as a quote thread

[Nortaneous]

Because he assumes that even newcomers to language creation and linguistic stuff in general would be aware of the fact that english is indeed one weird ass lang, and that they would be both interested in and able to make their lang original and different from their L1; he's, of course, wrong on both accounts, for a lot of them.

He'd be entitled to be surprised if these newcomers were coming to language creation through a previous interest in linguistic stuff. Which is rarely the case any more.

I know, I miss the good 'ol days when conlanging was an exclusive club reserved only for well-bred white academic folks.

How do you even GET to exclusivity, and especially to racism, from that?

Was that ""clever""?

Jesus Herbert Walker Christ, you just keep breaking record after record for how fucking impaired someone can be at Getting Shit.

I do not remember, back in 2001, 2002, etc. so many people who had never had an interest in linguistics, never even been curious about how languages work, never bothered to go learn anything about another language, having the impression that they should create a language. Maybe I'm seeing the past through rose-coloured glasses (yeah, I got accused of that). But I remember all the people I would talk to about conlanging back then had at least been interested in languages before deciding they wanted to make one of their own.
Expecting people to have an interest and a curiosity in what they're doing is hardly the same as wanting to lock them out of the club.

How the fuck do you even have conversations, or manage to get your shoes on the right feet in the morning, Viktor? Good god.

First of all, I was using Pthug logic which allows for large leaps. Secondly, did you ever think that people can learn about languages through creating a conlang and having it critiqued by an online community? Sure it's nice to have a former interest in linguistics, but that doesn't mean you can't build an interest through the process of conlanging. I don't see what's inherently wrong with doing that either, as you indirectly claim by referring to the good 'ol days of the past.

fuck you too, cunt

First of all, I was using Pthug logic which allows for large leaps.

the difference here being that at least pthug usually makes some sort of sense

also there is a difference between exclusivity and expecting people to at least do the MINIMAL fucking amount of research before posting their shit. if someone finds this place, they probably know about zompist's site (and if they don't, they can find it pretty easily) and the LCK is linked pretty obviously from there. not to mention the fact that IPA is used enough in conlang-related pages that people should eventually realize that those funny symbols actually mean something and they should probably learn what they mean

Berek, Pthag, Nortaneous, that's a hell of a overreaction. Why did you take him seriously?!?!

Berek, Pthag, Nortaneous, that's a hell of a overreaction. Why did you take him seriously?!?!

Good question, why did you take me seriously? Did I sound the least bit serious to you? For fuck sakes I was using Pthug logic people, that's the furthest thing from seriousness.

I have the take it like a man approach, such as when I laughed at my best friend for wearing a wrist brace when he cracked his wrist.

Berek, Pthag, Nortaneous, that's a hell of a overreaction. Why did you take him seriously?!?!

Because it's "Ha ha, only serious." As it always is with Viktor.

super subpixel rendering!!!!!!!

better?

[Torco]

I love vampy's sense of humour

QUOTE THREAD

There. Better now Xepher?

/me laughed

[Mbwa]

Thanks to Octaviano, I learned how to argue like a 'serious linguist': just repeat what the other people said, negated, IN UPPERCASE.

[Viktor77]

I must say, of all the forums I've ever frequented, this is the most anarchic.

Laissez-faire moderation + intellectuals + a large proportion of posters with malfunctioning sarcasm and humour detectors = the most ponderous and nerdy anarchy in existence. Enjoy!

[Viktor77]

These two, respectively.

Moreso simply the presence of Pthag, who combines a (for my money) freaking enormous intellect with a complete irreverence for the veneers of etiquette.

Best not to respond to him. Better not to ignore him.

Moreso simply the presence of Pthag

I see your idiolect hus a rather rare merger of /æ/ and /V/

[TomHChappell]

Anyway, for people who do remember me, not much has changed. Except that I'm working on a completely different conworld, am not in college anymore, and female.

Well... your signature looks familiar. (Though its pretty generic, so someone else might've had it) Have you changed your name at all?

The final letter ('a') used to be an 'o'.

i too changed a letter of my username
i can totally relate to what you're going through

[Cedh]

You can't eat boingies.

They're inedible.

that's a flaw in their design. you could feed the starving masses of the world with those boingies.

[linguoboy]

Having an informed discussion is impossible when there's a monkey jumping in your face every time you say something, so we're left with smacking it until it goes away as the major available option.

[Xephyr]

I think I see...so the i- ensures that it's a single thing (a phone call)...right?

If by 'ensures that it's a single thing' you mean 'means "1"', then yes.

I have no evidence that they are wrong, btw, but I used UPPERCASE so I don't need to present any.

[TomHChappell]

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[Trailsend]

cafemancy

[the duke of nuke]

"The oogley mood is used for states the speaker thinks she might like to see realized, but is not entirely sure. The boogleybangoogly mood indicates that the state is categorically deplorable."

[rickardspaghetti]

I have a consonant system of /k p t/ and a vowel system of /a e i o u y { 2/
What do you think of it? Also, did I get those X-SAMPA symbols right?

It's like Rotokas got pregnant by German then miscarried. That being said it seems interesting.

[faiuwle]

Salmoneous: In ur dictionary, redefinin' ur werdz.

Then there's the rather weak term "horrifying". I don't think Ames just thinks that Rand and the Republicans are "horrifying" - any old thing can provoke horror. An unpleasant sight can be horrifying. A painting can be horrifying. No, what Ames appears to want us to do is not just feel horror, but to actually feel opprobrium. He present's Rands comments AS THOUGH THEY WERE A BAD THING. Not just horrifying - actually bad.

[Anguipes]

Thinking about why I'm not into women, I think of their strangely curved bodies, hairless and gleaming; a body that combines aspects of a baby and a robot.

[TomHChappell]

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[Qwynegold]

Thinking about why I'm not into women, I think of their strangely curved bodies, hairless and gleaming; a body that combines aspects of a baby and a robot.

ROFLMAO