The Official ZBB Quote Thread

[Cedh]

Asking a conlang to be more like natlangs is like demanding every fiction story to be realistic fiction.

No, it isn't. You're saying that we should accept a lion with only its left legs and a wing on the right side as a perfectly reasonable animal.

[Wattmann]

Asking a conlang to be more like natlangs is like demanding every fiction story to be realistic fiction.

No, it isn't. You're saying that we should accept a lion with only its left legs and a wing on the right side as a perfectly reasonable animal.

[the duke of nuke]

How has this not made it here yet?

You guys are the same person?

Hey, what the hell?! There's nothing wrong with being me...

This one was fast...

The progression: "OMFG SOPA!!" "Republicans say people are rightfully poor" Travis B. is Bristel Wings of Christianity, in just one page.
Things are speeding up...

Yeah, that's the ZBB for you. The channels are changing things under discussion even quicker, both in topic and "deepness", so math → love interests → astrophysics → anal sex → linguistics → video games → microtonality → US elections wouldn't be that uncommon for just one afternoon

Uhh...
astrophysics → anal sex → linguistics
... do I still want to be here?

Don't worry, you'll get used to it.

If you haven't learned it already, about half of us are gay.

And this gentlemen, is why I love the ZBB.

[Pthagnar]

because it is a vapid, and false, commonplace

[the duke of nuke]

because it is a vapid, and false, commonplace

Arguably so, but I like the bit on topic drift. (This is, after all, one of the very few Internet forums I actually use...)

[Astraios]

What in the name of fuck was that.

France.

[Zontas]

Asking a conlang to be more like natlangs is like demanding every fiction story to be realistic fiction.

No, it isn't. You're saying that we should accept a lion with only its left legs and a wing on the right side as a perfectly reasonable animal.

It's a pathetically weak animal but it's still a fucking animal.

[Jadyndar]

Asking a conlang to be more like natlangs is like demanding every fiction story to be realistic fiction.

No, it isn't. You're saying that we should accept a lion with only its left legs and a wing on the right side as a perfectly reasonable animal.

It's a pathetically weak animal but it's still a fucking animal.

It being an animal at all wasn't the point. Let me highlight what the point is:

No, it isn't. You're saying that we should accept a lion with only its left legs and a wing on the right side as a perfectly reasonable animal.

An animal with two legs on its left and one wing on its right isn't even close to reasonable. It's bloody lunacy.

[Zontas]

Asking a conlang to be more like natlangs is like demanding every fiction story to be realistic fiction.

No, it isn't. You're saying that we should accept a lion with only its left legs and a wing on the right side as a perfectly reasonable animal.

It's a pathetically weak animal but it's still a fucking animal.

It being an animal at all wasn't the point. Let me highlight what the point is:

No, it isn't. You're saying that we should accept a lion with only its left legs and a wing on the right side as a perfectly reasonable animal.

An animal with two legs on its left and one wing on its right isn't even close to reasonable. It's bloody lunacy.

define 'reasonable' in that context

[Astraios]

No, don't bring your rubbish in here too.

[Jadyndar]

Fuck it, I'm done arguing. It's no use trying to reason with an unreasonable person. Helios is worse than Darkgamma.

[dhok]

It's fine if you're making a conlang that is interestingly un-natlangish. But those sorts of conlangs don't so much fuck over the rules of normal natlangs as work according to their own; look at Elkarîl.

[Drydic]

As you can see, I've just deleted all the valuable posts from this thread.

I'm not trying to belittle you Sal, but this had me laughing for a good five minutes.

[Jipí]

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=34437&p=951687#p951653

What's all the boxes?

That's where he keeps his phonemes.

No, phones go in boxes. Phonemes are stored in slashes.

[dhok]

Back in 2008 I started to get excited about Obama when I realized he was the first Democrat in a long time to appeal to my some of my conservative friends and family.

gee whillikers what a rush. did you thrill similarly when you first tried a little salt on your porridge?

I don't know why, this just made me giggle.

[jal]

The flesh katana
Deposits at the cervix
Nine months, a baby

JAL

[Astraios]

some of us literally do not have enough money to buy certain things like a seven hundred dollar television no matter how good we think it'd look taking up the wall opposite the shark tank in the guest stateroom of the zeppelin.

LIRLAT.

[Bristel]

>6 girls and there's a very real chance you wake up smelling of sweat with vomit on your breath?

At which point you arrive at exactly the same position as one might have with 1xGuy, and so the entire equation is buggered. Perhaps literally.

[Jetboy]

From the always-entertaining Dream Thread:

Janko came up behind me and started garroting me. Somewhat lazily, I began to fight back. My heart wasn't much in it.

[Aurora Rossa]

some of us literally do not have enough money to buy certain things like a seven hundred dollar television no matter how good we think it'd look taking up the wall opposite the shark tank in the guest stateroom of the zeppelin.

LIRLAT.

Likewise. I like how one can instantly tell he was talking to Viktor when saying that.

[Astraios]

I find it kinda sad that you can.

[Torco]

I find it kinda sad that you can.

Why? I mean, people have their own personalities, if I see a "wow, you're hot" post on the photo thread, I estimate a 71% chance it's you

[Astraios]

Sure, but being attracted to people is a good thing (usually...)! xD Having a gazillion dollars and not realizing that not everybody does is not such a good thing.

[Drydic]

It probably helps that "normal" behavior on the internet, ranges somewhere between "aspergers" and "terminal sociopath."

[Cedh]

how would you call the feeling of intensely loving humanity, but not really caring about individual humans and their well-being?

Communism.