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Cathbad wrote:
TheGoatMan wrote: Oil spills aren't very responsive to the subtle use of rhetoric. If they were, it would have stopped itself against its own self-interest.
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Woops. Minor failure of anaphora there.

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HelixWitch wrote:
Aid'os wrote:
Torco wrote:your momma's so kitchen sinky, has nine series of fricatives
My first attempt at conlanging (I was six years old, I had hardly any knowledge of phonetics, only the IPA chart, which I had just discovered a month before) had a huge phoneme inventory, with ten series of fricatives, when possible, voiceless, semivoiced, voiced, breathy voiced, ejective, repeat for sibilants, at I think eleven POAs, with phonemic palatalization, velarization or labialization atop that...
Can I meet your mom?

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Åge Kruger wrote:
WurdBendur wrote:Who keeps their books in stacks? That's a terrible idea. What if you want one from the bottom?
Classic ZBB quote. Raise your hand if you get the reference.
Zompist's Markov generator wrote:it was labelled" orange marmalade," but that is unutterably hideous.

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bricka wrote:
Åge Kruger wrote:
WurdBendur wrote:Who keeps their books in stacks? That's a terrible idea. What if you want one from the bottom?
Classic ZBB quote. Raise your hand if you get the reference.
This is why I keep my books in a linkedlist.

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TheGoatMan wrote:
bricka wrote:
Åge Kruger wrote:
WurdBendur wrote:Who keeps their books in stacks? That's a terrible idea. What if you want one from the bottom?
Classic ZBB quote. Raise your hand if you get the reference.
This is why I keep my books in a linkedlist.
Linked list? When I were a lad we used a scroll! You could delete at both ends in them days!
Zompist's Markov generator wrote:it was labelled" orange marmalade," but that is unutterably hideous.

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bricka wrote:
TheGoatMan wrote:
bricka wrote:
Åge Kruger wrote:
WurdBendur wrote:Who keeps their books in stacks? That's a terrible idea. What if you want one from the bottom?
Classic ZBB quote. Raise your hand if you get the reference.
This is why I keep my books in a linkedlist.
Linked list? When I were a lad we used a scroll! You could delete at both ends in them days!
It's unsafe to have delete actions, especially on both ends of the scroll. You should replace it with a double-ended queue, pop, and let the scaffyman take care of the rest. It's the only way to do it safely.
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XinuX wrote:
Aid'os wrote:From sound samples, I hear a labialized prevelar approximant with maybe the slightest amount of postalveolopalatalization.
POSTALVEOLOPALATALIZATION
versus
DECHTICAETIATIVE

BATTLE OF THE LINGUISTIC TERMINOLOGY
SUNDAY AT THE HIPPODROME
BE THERE
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GreenBowTie wrote:All this idiotic bickering over a sarcastic Nazi comment is distracting from the fact that buying a pickelhaube is the stupidest idea in the world.
XinuX wrote:I learned this language, but then I sneezed and now am in prison for high treason. 0/10 would not speak again.

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[i]Linguistics will become a science when linguists begin standing on one another's shoulders instead of on one another's toes.[/i]
—Stephen R. Anderson

[i]Málin eru höfuðeinkenni þjóðanna.[/i]
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On the subject of "why children are shielded from nudity/swearing/etc":
Pthug wrote:because looking at naked people and swearing are for adults to do, not children.

when adults see children behaving like adults, the whole illusory construct of childhood comes crashing down and the shell of civilisation cracks a little

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At the risk of self-promotion, I thought a few of you might agree that this deserves a mention. I've taken the liberty of editing in some context.
Echobeats wrote:
Shortly after I had posted a link to some online Inuktitut lessons, Jacqui wrote:Strange Phrase or Words From Conlangs

I'll go first with a very recent creation of mine:

Tułakarumanngittaaluyuna [tuɬakaɢumaŋ:ita:lujuna]
I cannot hear very well.
Inuktitut wrote:Tusaatsiarunnanngittualuujunga [tusa:tsiaɢun:aŋ:it:ualu:juŋa]
I cannot hear very well.
[i]Linguistics will become a science when linguists begin standing on one another's shoulders instead of on one another's toes.[/i]
—Stephen R. Anderson

[i]Málin eru höfuðeinkenni þjóðanna.[/i]
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Shm Jay wrote:Barbarism is using a cucumber for a dildo.
Primitive civilization is using a cucumber as a foodstuff.
Civilization is using a cucumber as a foodstuff and dressing it with oil and vinegar.
Decadence is dressing the cucumber with oil and vinegar and then using it as a dildo.
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Eddy wrote:
Shm Jay wrote:Barbarism is using a cucumber for a dildo.
Primitive civilization is using a cucumber as a foodstuff.
Civilization is using a cucumber as a foodstuff and dressing it with oil and vinegar.
Decadence is dressing the cucumber with oil and vinegar and then using it as a dildo.
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linguoboy wrote:
Dewrad wrote:
Echobeats wrote:
Soap wrote:I learned proto-World while I was away last year and travelled back in time to visit the Klêpeci family of Eoqaaniam. It's really a very nice language, though I was surprised to learn that early human languages went for more than 100,000 years before they developed any fricatives.
Cool. Which continent's population are they the ancestors of?
Mu?
That would make their language both Justified and Ancient!
Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.

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Torco wrote:
Eddy wrote:
Shm Jay wrote:Barbarism is using a cucumber for a dildo.
Primitive civilization is using a cucumber as a foodstuff.
Civilization is using a cucumber as a foodstuff and dressing it with oil and vinegar.
Decadence is dressing the cucumber with oil and vinegar and then using it as a dildo.
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"There was a particular car I soon came to think of as distinctly St. Louis-ish: a gigantic white S.U.V. with a W. bumper sticker on it for George W. Bush."

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Torco wrote:
Pthug wrote:
Viktor77 wrote:I call a truce, let's agree to disagree since none of us lived then and we can not know for sure the identity of a given person then.
This is great. Don't you believe in anything?
postmodernism ftw :D
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Eddy wrote:What does LIRLAT mean?
?Laughing In Real Life AT?

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Laughed in Real Life At That

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Nortaneous wrote:
linguoboy wrote:
Dewrad wrote:
Echobeats wrote:
Soap wrote:I learned proto-World while I was away last year and travelled back in time to visit the Klêpeci family of Eoqaaniam. It's really a very nice language, though I was surprised to learn that early human languages went for more than 100,000 years before they developed any fricatives.
Cool. Which continent's population are they the ancestors of?
Mu?
That would make their language both Justified and Ancient!
:mrgreen:
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Echobeats wrote:
Viktor77 wrote:
YngNghymru wrote:You enjoyed Frenchifying letters in 1908? I didn't know you were that old.
To be fair, I was 21 in 1908 so I was quite young then, a fledging youth trying to find himself among London society.
If you were 21 in 1908, shouldn't your screen name be Viktor87?
Viktor77 wrote:I'd like to think this was worthy of being quoted in the Quote Thread but I'll refrain from it due to the fact I'd look like a total arse quoting a quote about myself.

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brandrinn wrote:
finlay wrote:And let's face it, even if they made a big song and dance of it, Quakers are like the least harmful religious sect ever.
Unless you're a tree.

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Sir Rei wrote:
Torco wrote:
Shm Jay wrote:
Torco wrote:congratz on having a girlfriend, man
So which group here feels worse about it, the heterosexual females or the homosexual males?
Your interest in people's sexual desirability borders on the level of fanfic enthusiasts, my friend. Perhaps you should write a soap opera featuring zeebers? that would be extremely fun
Oh dear... please don't put me in a skin-squeezing skimpy leather outfit of any sort!
I did have a bizarrely similar (to the original poster's) accident about four years ago, in which I slipped over a cookie and somehow twisted my ankle so far that it broke
What kind of cookie?
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Neek wrote:Thanks for pointing out the typo. I can't them all.

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