The Official ZBB Quote Thread

TomHChappell · Post by **TomHChappell** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:51 pm

Colzie wrote:
imploder wrote:Why are all the affixes only one sound?
Because I didn't feel like making them longer.

TomHChappell · Post by **TomHChappell** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:59 pm

Xhin · Post by **Xhin** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 8:24 pm

Mbwa wrote:
Do you have your driver's license yet? On the exam they're going to check if you know what to do at a glottal stop.
When I read that I pictured a car driving down a giant throat and towards a glottis that suddenly closes, and the car smashing into it. Trippy...

Dewrad wrote:
wii wrote:The only difference is, Janko is a pimp. A number pimp. He's got all yall's numbers.
Which makes Serali a slut? A script slut, begging for your pretty scripties?

Xhin · Post by **Xhin** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:01 pm

cromulant wrote:Don't try to get everyone into conlanging. Just focus on the cheerleaders, the captain of the football team, the student body class president, and other popular kids. Once they realize how cool conlanging is and take it up, there will be a trickle-down effect as the other students follow their lead.

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:14 pm

Pthag wrote:please people it was metaphorical shit

Xhin · Post by **Xhin** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:59 pm

Eccentric Iconoclast wrote:I find the most absurd things to get distracted over. Last time I had to write a paper, I got the overwhelming urge to bake large amounts of strudel.

TomHChappell · Post by **TomHChappell** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:21 am

yssida · Post by **yssida** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:18 am

tatapyranga wrote:
pharazon wrote:
Cctoide wrote:Isn't that "naught"?
"aught" and "naught" both work.
It depends on the person that uses it. According to usage, linguists classify people as "aughty" or "naughty".

캉탁 · Post by 캉탁 » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:43 am

TomHChappell · Post by **TomHChappell** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:05 pm

Risla · Post by **Risla** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:07 pm

vohpenonomae wrote:
Makerowner wrote:
psygnisfive wrote:Yep. He died back in the 90s I think.

Ubykh sounded very french like to me.
It has almost the exact same intonation as Quebec French. Maybe the same monks that invented Basque also brought Ubykh to New France?
Here's my theory on that: Ubykh and Basque descend from a common ancestor (which, once I tabluate correspondences and formulate sound changes, shall call Proto-Monk; this a long-suspected connection that has, until now, defied explication); Quebec French's intonation system was influenced areally by Ubykh, though it was kind of like gravity: spooky action at a distance, since the languages were/are so far away from one another. That explains it all.

Also, since Ubykh and all the NW Caucasian languages must logically descend from Proto-Monk, this hints at a plan of Monkish genocide against the people of the Caucasus; psygnisfive has pointed out that complicated uvular phones lead directly to choking to death while eating. And since most people do talk while they eat, the Monks must have intended to kill off the Caucasian people in that fashion.

langover94 · Post by **langover94** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:55 pm

Pie Man wrote:"Sign Language must be easy because it's just replacing English words with intuitive gestures".

ARGH!!

PTSnoop · Post by **PTSnoop** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:02 am

bricka wrote:This is a good point at which to recycle my anecdote about how, about twenty years ago, I heard that 75% of 13-year-olds in the USA believed that Europe was a small island somewhere off Massachusetts.

EDIT

Gulliver wrote:...some written agreement accepting you as the creator of the world.

In any other context, that would sound very strange.

yssida · Post by **yssida** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:30 am

faiuwle wrote:
-Klaivas- wrote:[...]which isn't a mood, because infinitives are happy verbs.
...
So... the imperatives are angry verbs and the subjunctives are depressive/self-doubting verbs?

alice · Post by **alice** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:33 pm

Xhin wrote:A long time ago on this forum, someone noticed how many villians were named with the root M*L*CH or M*L*K

zompist wrote:Obviously it's the Proto-World root maliq'a. The semantic progression would be swallow cheek cheeky evil.

dunomapuka · Post by **dunomapuka** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:13 pm

Makerowner wrote:
Soap wrote:Armenian changed initial dw- into erkh-, but Im not sure that was sporadic. I think it happened in all cases ... but on the other hand how many words could that be?
I'm assuming there were some intermediate stages?
"Hi, I'm looking for Dwight."
"Oh, you mean Erkhight?"

jmcd · Post by **jmcd** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:34 am

I found this in Xhin's sig:

prickly pear wrote:
psygnisfive wrote:And it's not like most major wars were the result of mistranslations or something silly like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_2

I don't understand it. I think it's supposed to be funny in some way but I'm not sure how.

Rui · Post by **Rui** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:52 pm

-Klaivas- wrote:
Xhin wrote:Tolkien once remarked how beautiful-sounding the mundane phrase cellar door was.
Only because it's like gone door, more door and area door... a symbol of his own arrogance

Xhin · Post by **Xhin** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:25 am

prickly pear wrote:
psygnisfive wrote: And it's not like most major wars were the result of mistranslations or something silly like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_2

PTSnoop · Post by **PTSnoop** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:14 am

Xhin wrote:
prickly pear wrote:
psygnisfive wrote: And it's not like most major wars were the result of mistranslations or something silly like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_2

jmcd wrote:I don't understand it. I think it's supposed to be funny in some way but I'm not sure how.

I don't get it either.

Radius Solis · Post by **Radius Solis** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:08 pm

Dewrad wrote:
bricka wrote:
Dewrad wrote:... an end to the factional in-fighting. All three have about the same probability of being discovered, of course.
How would you discover an end to in-fighting?
Well, a David Bellamy-like researcher could be stalking the forests around Hayle and chance upon a gathering of Cornish Revivalists in their natural habitat. Instead of seeing the intra-species competition and alpha-male status displays that he has been led to expect from previous documentation of this species, he notes instead harmonious cooperation and peaceful love, almost as if he had chanced upon a reenactment of Psalm 23.

캉탁 · Post by 캉탁 » Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:55 pm

Tarasoriku · Post by **Tarasoriku** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:42 pm

bricka wrote:On a similar subject, could equivalent forms of lizards be called "allosaurs", as in the dinosaur?

Curlyjimsam · Post by **Curlyjimsam** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:43 pm

pharazon wrote:
-Klaivas- wrote:1/25 chance of an asteroid hitting Mars:
Yay! Let's watch it and jizz ourselves in a big Martian orgy!
1/25 chance of an asteroid hitting Earth:
HOLY FUCK RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! DIG DEEP UNDERGROUND! LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY!
However much it looks like I'm slagging people off here, I'm actually just amused by the weird paradox-like-ness of it
A subtle resolution to this paradox is that no one lives on Mars.

Herr Mors · Post by **Herr Mors** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:31 pm

One of the first IRC quotes in a while, taken from #erelae, the only real channel:

<Naima> Posted slutty picture of phar's penis is a nazi.
<Zeikan> :O
<Kasadkad> omg
<Zeikan> PHAR'S PENIS IS A NAZI?
<Kasadkad> I swear it's not true