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Xephyr wrote:
Daniel Suslak, an Indiana University linguistic anthropologist, is compiling a dictionary to record the existence of the language.
Anyone else get a kick out of the wording here? Yeah, I think we've already pretty well established the language's EXISTENCE... what Daniel Suslak (and other field linguists) are doing is something else.

Unless...

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jal wrote:Let's not derail this thread in a hotsauce debate people, it's a quote thread.
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Pthag wrote: <pthag> all i can think of is that maybe american linguistics tends to be full of lumpers
<pthag> or the people who compiled the american dataset for WALS were lumpers
<pthag> or the people who came across the bering strait were genetic idiots who could barely keep five phonemes in their head at once and so were rightly genocided
<pthag> well i mean lumpers specifically w.r.t phoneme lists
<pthag> it seems like a plausible sort of institutionalised how-to-train-linguists thing?
<pthag> when you kids go out and start doing fieldwork, remember to bear in mind the complex and beautiful nature of allophony and keep your phoneme lists tight and controlled
<pthag> MEANWHILE IN EUROPE
<pthag> chaos, anarchy and totalitarianism reigns, nobody has any discipline whatsoever and compiles huge phoneme sets

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[quote="linguoboy, in "The Welsh Copula","]Any time I hear rydw I'm like "OH NOES! Cymraeg Byw claims another victim from beyond the grave!"[/quote]
Maybe it's just me, but I really enjoyed this reaction.
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Eddy wrote:Because no one likes hearing their work cliticized.

(I suppose that belongs in the Jokes Thread but oh well).
But it's good enough to be kept for posterity.
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To provide some context, of course, I was saying that in response to this thread: why are clitics of such interest to Indo-Europeanists?
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Sal thinks this is offensive.

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TomHChappell wrote:
Eddy wrote:To provide some context, of course, I was saying that in response to this thread: why are clitics of such interest to Indo-Europeanists?
I would imagine anyone who ever hopes to have sex with a woman would be interested in clitics.
Clitorics???
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There was a king named Clutorix, though he seems to be mostly known today as Clodri (a Welsh form of the name).
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brandrinn wrote:
schwhatever wrote:
that link wrote:The danger is that, over time, the usage of our generation will grow so different from the usage of previous generations that we will find their works impossibly foreign, as though we essentially speak in another dialect.
Hahahahaha, oh they're serious... :roll:
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Drydic Guy wrote:
Xephyr wrote:A mysterious, unknown language he's been spontaneously talking in since as long as he could speak?
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Well, Phrygian of course.
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Eddy wrote:
Matt wrote:What's the difference between a banjo and a trampoline?
You take off your shoes before jumping on a trampoline.
Right on!
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I find that exchange all the more funny because I had specifically included a note to Eddy in that post, explaining that it was just a joke and not a political statement.
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Pthug wrote:
Shm Jay wrote:And my vote will have a lot of weight
no, it won't. except in the sense that one of the many lead atoms hanging around in your nervous system has "a lot of weight" compared to a randomly selected carbon atom.
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Errata:
Pthug wrote:
Xephyr wrote:
bulbaquil wrote:What about the handful of plutonium atoms brought over from the Fukushima event? (Of course, they'd be radioactive and experience radioactive-y things like half-lives, but...)
Plutonium-239 decays to Uranium-235, which decays to Thorium-231, which decays to Proactinium-231, which decays to Actinium-227, which decays to Thorium-227, all of which are heavier than lead. So yes.
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Risla wrote:
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linguoboy wrote:I had such an awesome time in St Louis a couple weeks back. The first thing I did when I got back was catch a cold.
I think I got that cold from you. Despite there being an internet in the way.
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roninbodhisattva wrote:
Mecislau wrote:
roninbodhisattva, saying what class he'd sat in on, wrote:Language Contact with Victor Friedman and Lenore Grenoble.
That means you were quite literally in the very same classroom as me.
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Xephyr wrote:Translation from Salmonish to English: "I have no idea what metal is, except that it's not Classical music, nor played with a didgeridoo, bougarabou, or noseflute."
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Viktor77 wrote:
Pthug wrote:
Viktor77 wrote:How exactly do you "bury someone at sea?" Did they cremate him first and dump his ashes? Did they dig him a grave in the sand at the bottom of the ocean? What does it mean to "bury someone at sea?"
you put them in a box and throw them into the sea
That hardly seems effective. The box could just float back to shore. Unless it was meant to sink, which still seems ineffective.

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Drydic Guy wrote:
Travis B. wrote:But Bedelato, why are you so ambiguous about where you are from here? NAE varieties are not nearly as homogeneous as you may think they are; saying you are from the US is not saying much here at all.
Because, clearly, we are all stalkers who only want to find and CENSOREDCENSOREDCENSOREDCENSOREDCENSORED with rivets.
Um... with rivets?
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linguoboy wrote:
Shrdlu wrote:I was going to call you but you didn't answer. :cry:
How could I answer a call that you were going to make but didn't?
Try to wrap your heads around the first sentence!
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The fun stuff is that the phrase is perfectly understandable to me.

Btw, just posting to say "Yay, for being quoted!".
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