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ObsequiousNewt wrote:

ol bofosh wrote:

ObsequiousNewt wrote:

cromulant wrote:

ObsequiousNewt wrote:Wait. Why don't we try something here. Patiku, you don't say that Eddy is gay; Eddy, you don't say that Patiku says you're gay, and everybody else doesn't tell Eddy to ignore Patiku.

Then, of course, we can get back to arguing about more important things.

And so it was that Obsequious Newt singlehandedly ended the Eddythread with his wise words of wisdom.

*bows*

Today, this Eddythread, tomorrow, the world!

What, you're going to end the world with your wise words of wisdom???

Exactly. It'll go something like this:

ObsequiousNewt, in the future, wrote:Wait. Why don't we try something here. Syria, you don't say that Israel is gay; Israel, you don't say that Palestine is gay, and America, you stop messing around in the Middle East.

Following which the U.S. will withdraw their forces, the Middle East will stop fighting with each other, and everything will be rainbows and happiness and Mohammed (peace be upon him.) Then, after about five years of having no outlet for its agression, America will finally crack, and go on a murderous rampage, destroying the whole world before committing suicide.

Nortaneous wrote:Rusanov, there's being a fascist, and then there's being incapable of responding to anything without going "beep boop i am a fascist" for twenty paragraphs.

last May, Legion wrote:

Drydic Guy wrote:Great, now dhok's terrible phase is enshrined forever.

Don't worry no one actually reads back this thread [inb4 doing it just to disprove this sentence]

zompist wrote:Did you just complain that one of Sal's posts is not long enough?

Astraios wrote:you don't need to have sex with a fantasy book

Daistallia wrote:You are entitled to your own opinions. You are not entitled to your own facts.

jmcd wrote:

Daistallia wrote:You are entitled to your own opinions. You are not entitled to your own facts.

Nessari wrote:

linguoboy wrote:People, the subject line says, "Quote Thread". I'm pretty sure the Pointless and Annoying Pedantic Debate Thread has always been in Ephemera.

No, every single thread on this forum has the Pointless and Annoyingly Pedantic Debate Thread as an assumed subtitle.

patiku wrote:

jmcd wrote:

Daistallia wrote:You are entitled to your own opinions. You are not entitled to your own facts.

He was just quoting Senator Moynihan.

Cúlro wrote:Mods who have to reign in their natural personality to avoid rubbing people up the wrong way are not well-suited for the job.

Cúlro wrote:Mods who have to reign in their

Cúlro wrote:reign

KathAveara wrote:In which case, I may push my southern dragons up the archipelago.

Radius Solis wrote:

Cúlro wrote:Mods who have to reign in their natural personality to avoid rubbing people up the wrong way are not well-suited for the job.

Cúlro wrote:Mods who have to reign in their

Cúlro wrote:reign

Congratulations! You have found a sentence in which the difference between "reign" and "rein" makes for two opposite meanings!

Cúlro wrote:

KathAveara wrote:In which case, I may push my southern dragons up the archipelago.

This made me giggle way more than it should have.

Kereb wrote:Or the tl;dr version: Jim Carrey's wife wanted a magic space baby, so I had to cough until my eyes bled.

<Cev> I open a random page in this grammar of Bungi Creole, a creole once spoken in Canada
<Cev> and there it is:
<Cev> "aboot 'about'"
<rhetorica|work> pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTtttttttttttttttttt
rhetorica|work leaks air.

Kereb wrote:

We had a cocktail mixing contest at a friend's place. The ingredient in my hand actually became part of a delicious beverage.

Torco wrote:It's like a tiny glass of hentai !

Salmoneus wrote:A current plaything, that probably doesn't merit a C&CQ post yet, but which I wanted to share:

// Ne hou nde grâü dwaz liveŋe Habe / Dis twazne harbl mêsí wa̦rí Hou, dás fïwe̦t wëm Aɲz nde móki Smyü tï, ndis twazne nerívne jaï bë syeri Hou, dás lákaɲ ênitaɲ ïɲne fesiraɲrâun ö fe̦rireŋóp / Dis twaze habe Hou, ndás mpraïzeɲ Köfe //

Kereb wrote:harbl

GreenBowTie wrote:

R.Rusanov wrote:say we found out exactly what and how indoeuropeans spoke 3500 years ago on the pontic steppe
does it even really matter? ml or wr or whatever is still just a combination of sounds some ancient people said once. there's no relevance upon the modern world

might i kindly suggest this is not the thread for you

Salmoneus wrote:"Arguments" like this one are the world's best proof that God does not exist...

zompist wrote:

linguoboy wrote:So probably all of you have looked as the name "Westeros" and had the same thought: looks like a PIE word. Anyone played around with the etymology at all? I guess the most plausible root is *wes- "stay, dwell", but there are plenty of other possibilities, including some which incorporate *wekʷsperos somehow.

Given that we have Westeros in the West, Essos in the East, and Sothoryos int he South, I think the answer is "Martin isn't a very good conlanger."