The Official ZBB Quote Thread

[Qwynegold]

I have had... certain problems in telling apart "bjórs" (of beer) and "brjóst" (breast) after repeating them in multiple goes.

Multiple repetition of beer has that effect in other languages as well.

[Lyra]

durakken you are clueless shut the fuck up

[Whimemsz]

this sort of dogmatic "I disagree with you therefore you're a complete and utter imbecile and should die in a fire and also are a horrible person and fuck you and the bitch that bore you bile bile bile bile bile bile bile" thing is kind of boring.

okay everybody, stop everything, torco is *bored* by your antics! You have provoked him into an empathetic overcompensatory coolness by your shameful display of emotions, why this poor man may have just suffered permanent thalamic damage rendering him PERMANENTLY COOL. you will have to live with that for the rest. of. your. lives.

[Torco]

xD yeah, that one was hilarious

[Qwynegold]

By the way, I'm gay and also Jewish.

Well, you see, sociologically its impossible for you to be gay and also Jewish, but according to research and my own ideology, you can be Gayish and also jew. this is a very important distinction. I'm sorry for saying anything in the first place, since I'm an atheist and white and straight and so not oppressed by either modes of race, religion or sexuality imposition in our society, but I feel that I sociologically must because of Durkheim.

why have you never mentioned this before? >:|

shut up and stop oppressing him !

[Wattmann]

SM MLP Nazi?

*doublechecks if I accidentally actually clicked on the Random Thread*

[Qwynegold]

Eating chocolate doesn't do good for other people; it harms them, in fact! (You eat up all the chocolate and there is less for them)

It's funny because it's true.

[Izambri]

Oizhà. Tarnede nas Basc nas Pirineus Rodiscanisos.
Of course, It derivates from Eastern Pyrenean Basque.

Tal qualque.
As does everything.

Even birds? I thought they evolved from theropod dinosaurs, not Basque.

[ol bofosh]

"I helped my uncle Jack off a horse" doesn't mean the same thing as "I helped my uncle jack off a horse". Punctuation is part of the grammar of written language!

I XD

[Wattmann]

How dare people not want to do lots of work, especially when others have done it! My, it's scandalous! When I was a child, why, I re-invented the wheel three times a week!

A good resource is CELEX: http://celex.mpi.nl/
It's a little opaque, though, if you don't know how to use it. Here's how to get all the words:
Click "create lexicon", then "English wordforms" (or lemmas, if you like).
Then select "Word" from the orthography column, and "PhonSAM" (for X-SAMPA-like transcription*) in the phonology column. Click ok.
Leave the next page blank, and click ok again.
Decide what format you want the output to be in, and click ok again.
The page with your results will take a while to load, as it trawls through the database of all the English words. The transcription is in RP.

Hope this helps!

*The diphthongs are transcribed as numbers; you should be able to figure it out after looking at it for a while.

Saved me hours of work! Thank you, Rory!

[Torco]

What's will all those trees ?

It's called a forest.

I mean the ded wanz

They got cocky.

LIRLAT

[Kereb]

Shocked at being upstaged like that, I turned to Stewart and calmly said "Some day you will pay for that comment with your own blood!" I then snatched the book out of his hand, slapped him in the back of his head with it so hard that he smashed his face into the desk and broke his nose, then walked off into the sunset!

Why is there an exclamation point if you said it calmly?

Emotionally I was calm, but due to my Extreme Aspergers I cannot control my voice.

[Torco]

evolution bla bla bla natural selection bla bla bla hairy balls'.

wisdom

[linguoboy]

This is not uncommon. There's actually someone in one of my classes named Kyla. Predictably, she looks like a lesbian and watches Doctor Who because she wants to fuck the guy with no eyebrows who replaced the guy who looked like a parakeet hit by a truck.

[Thry]

That's exactly the thing, he claimed to know more about the English language than me because of his journalism credentials, which makes no sense in an argument at all, I could see if he argued he'd studied under Labov or Crystal, and even then his ideas are just stupid, but journalist? Really?

Quickly! Regurgitating random facts contest!
"Catalan is a dialect of Spanish!"
"Unlike Spanish, English doesn't even have dialects!"
"Oh, yeah, well that's because it was made up by Basque monks!"
"I thought it descended from mixing Latin and French."
"That's what the Monks want you to think!"
"Wait, isn't Basque just a dialect of Spanish?"
"No, Portuguese."
"What about Japanese?"
"No, you're thinking of Finnish."
"I thought that was a dialect of Swedish."
"They all come from Sanskrit."
"Including Romani?"
"No, that's just the purest form of Latin"

[Ser]

Quickly! Regurgitating random facts contest!
"Catalan is a dialect of Spanish!"
"Unlike Spanish, English doesn't even have dialects!"
"Oh, yeah, well that's because it was made up by Basque monks!"
"I thought it descended from mixing Latin and French."
"That's what the Monks want you to think!"
"Wait, isn't Basque just a dialect of Spanish?"
"No, Portuguese."
"What about Japanese?"
"No, you're thinking of Finnish."
"I thought that was a dialect of Swedish."
"They all come from Sanskrit."
"Including Romani?"
"No, that's just the purest form of Latin"

Vuvuzela: this is excellent, most excellent, sir. This should be made a comic. Like, two people discussing, plus some random Indian getting in for the "They all come from Sanskrit" line.

[Jipí]

I'd be sad if this effort got lost, so I'ma copy it here:

GIPIUS: Just read thy Shakèspeare already, boy! –
 And properly to pronoun wilt thou learn.
 With ease thou thereupon canst go employ
 The knowledge that thine effort thee did earn.

 (I hope thou seest the very thing I did:
 My intent was for thee to illustrate
 The diff'rent forms of pronouns as thou bidst
 By bungling with such matters delicate.

 And, friends, forgive me, I did not comply
 Unto the rules that govern o'er this thread
 Whereby in a constructed language I
 Should have compos'd my present say instead;

 To answer with a sonnet was, however,
 A challenge I found worthy to endeavor.)

[bows; exit Gipius]

Context: viewtopic.php?p=999277#p999277

[tezcatlip0ca]

The third line in the first stanza is missing a foot.

[Jipí]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-

It should scan properly now. I blame it on German using tetrameter as the default meter. Ballad stanza and stuff.

Also, "did" and "bidst" don't rhyme, because I misfixed things. I give up.

[masako]

Yeah, it's hard to tell sometimes, but they don't sound assimilated to me.

So, what, n changes but m doesn't? That's weird. Why?

Tide comes in, tide goes out, never a miscommunication! can't explain that!

Just awesome.

[linguoboy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5dSyT50Cs8

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Beating Bill O'Reilly in a battle of wits is like punching a kindergartner in the face.

[linguoboy]

Beating Bill O'Reilly in a battle of wits is like punching a kindergartner in the face.

That's why the impressive thing about Tyson's performance is that he manages to pull it off without looking like an asshole.

[Torco]

Dude, anyone looks like a non-asshole while punching bill o'reilly in the face: I'm not american, I don't watch TV, and I still know who that dude is.

punch away, mister deGrasse, punch away.

[WeepingElf]

Not sure where this took a turn for onomastics, but "Wolfgang" sounds like the name of a recent indie band or something. (They probably have a side-project by the name Tigerposse.)