The Official ZBB Quote Thread

[Klaivas]

New Zealandic? Is that English of New Zealand or is it a native language?

Lulz!

[alice]

Seconded! I might have to start wearing low-cut tops to bare my ample chesthair.

Spack, if you post a picture of yourself wearing a heavily décolleté chiffon ballgown here on the ZBB, I swear that I will personally fly out to the states and fellate you.

[Xephyr]

I've found one more reason to be glad I live in Finland. We don't seem to have blackouts very often, and the worst I remember lasted for no more than a couple of hours (although IIRC, the neighborhood I live in was among the first to get power again, so it would've been worse somewhere else).

Natural disasters s***.

You censored the word "suck"?

I do. Don't like it much.

[Iridium]

Volapük is interesting and unique. I like the language as an artlang. But as an auxlang it is like stabbing a puppy in front of your daughter's friend during her birthday.

It is just plain wrong.

[PTSnoop]

You're all weird.

We're on a website about making up languages. What did you expect?

Too true.

[dunomapuka]

Yeah I'm a phobic when it comes to language terms

This is rather revealing.

[makvas]

..::|'' LOL ''|::..

Proof of what we are dealing with.

Worse than Serali? Too debatable.

[Cedh]

Oh, and I was born in 1969, not 1970, despite what the census says. How did that happen?

Recently, historians concluded that the year 1969 didn't actually occur; due to Timothy Leary contaminating the world's water supply with LSD, much of it was a collective hallucination, with real events from 1968 and 1970 jumbled in. So all real events remembered as having occured in 1969 actually occured in 1968 or 1970; we can't discern which real events correspond to which year, however, so we just arbitrarily assigned each event a year. Your birth was assigned to 1970. Hope that clears things up.

[iBiteVampires]

WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO???

KILL ME?

But she lived! YAY!

[schwhatever]

Comic books and TV shows almost never portray normal people correctly.

Now, by making just a few small changes, we prettify the orthography for happier socialist tomorrow!

^ WHS. Except for the log thing and the Andean panpipers.

I have to get rid of one so that atleast two can fit in my signature.

I'm sorry Kuh-five, but you may be the weakest link.

[Chengjiang]

Your sig is now amusingly misleading.

[makvas]

I found this funny, for some reason.

That's not ignorance, that's social darwinism.

[Dewrad]

From #isharia:

<jlyne> Ask the little Japanese boy you keep in your closet, vlad. Duh.
<vlad> yeah, about that boy
<vlad> it turns out
<vlad> that I've actually been getting Japanese advice from a robotic santa that sings Jingle Bell Rock

[Qwynegold]

Here (England) I would say to "cut someone up". To cut someone off would be to hang up on them on the phone or just generally interupt them.

WOW! Be careful about using that in North America--people will start backing away slowly and glancing furtively about for police officers if you tell them you "cut someone up on the highway"!

[schwhatever]

The situation you describe can't happen in my case, because I am happily married, and the key to a happy marriage is to schedule everything, preferably weeks in advance. 6-6:30, conlanging; 6:30-7, skin the cat; 7-7:30, make love to beautiful stranger; that kind of thing.

[yssida]

Do you prefer thongs to diphthongs?

[Qwynegold]

1. Xin chào bạn - Fifty dorra
2. Có khỏe không? - Pardon me kind sir, but pray tell me what is your name?
3. Xin cho một tràng pháo tay cho ... - For tirty dorra me do dutty ting...
4. Xin hỏi quý danh - Me so horny
5. Bóng nhật tàn tuyết - Me love you long time
6. Mùa hạ rực ấm, đông thì tàn lắm em ơi! - Hi

Anyway, I think your conlang has too many diacritics; perhaps you should consider simplifying some of the graphemes.

[Delalyra]

Can someone actually translate it or not, this is not a discussion thread.

Topic drift. If you lurked moar and got to know about the forum's culture, you'd know that it's common and protests against it result in a "fuck you" at best.

The ZBB. Slowly transforming into the ZB/b/ since, well, the beginning.

[Rui]

Palli:
Ha lalla lalla lallu la-lalla, lin lalla, lala lallau.
Gloss:
lalla -- song
lala -- to sing
lallu -- songful
-a- -- present tense infix
ha -- transitive verb marker

Under my um-be-rella, lalla lalla lallu la-lalla, lin lalla, lala lallau, ehh ehh ehh...

[jmcd]

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.

I don't get it either.

I reiterate. Can someone please explain why psygnisfive's comment followed onto prickly pear's?

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I reiterate. Can someone please explain why psygnisfive's comment followed onto prickly pear's?

It doesn't. Prickly Pear was really trying to link to this.

[Raphael]

I put orange juice in my belly button to see what would happen. But now it's just wet and smells of orange.

[Risla]

But they age like we do except their looks don't change and neither to their energy levels.

So they just get irritable bowels and difficulty keeping an erection?

[Klaivas]

You ALL need to grow up!

[Qwynegold]

I suppose it would be an 'apical velar lateral approximant'?
Or an 'if you don't watch it, you'll swallow your tongue and you will make a few harsh sounding glottal fricatives before you stop making sound altogether'