The Official ZBB Quote Thread

[ol bofosh]

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:

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.

[Herr Dunkel]

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.

That's it, Nort won the internet, we can all go home

[Radius Solis]

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]

False, as I have just run into this while reading back in the thread for a certain quote I half-remember from a few months ago and wanted to see what it was again.

[ObsequiousNewt]

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

Addressed to Radius.

[Aili Meilani]

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

[jmcd]

You are entitled to your own opinions. You are not entitled to your own facts.

[patiku]

You are entitled to your own opinions. You are not entitled to your own facts.

He was just quoting Senator Moynihan.

[Pressed Bunson]

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.

[jmcd]

You are entitled to your own opinions. You are not entitled to your own facts.

He was just quoting Senator Moynihan.

I had no idea. It didn't even occur to me that he was quoting someone else, otherwise I would have looked. Thanks.

[Radius Solis]

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

Mods who have to reign in their

reign

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

[din]

Oh, now I get why I didn't get it, the first time I read it.




(this sounds like cheap poetry)

[Radagast revived]

Note how the ambiguity exists only in writing though, due to the difference in intonation between [[rein in] their personality] and [reign [in their personality]].

[Cúlro]

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

This made me giggle way more than it should have.

[Cúlro]

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

Mods who have to reign in their

reign

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

I shall pass on your congratulations to my iPad's autocorrect.

I was messaging a friend the other day and it changed an exclamation of "Lord!" into "kotex!"

[KathTheDragon]

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

This made me giggle way more than it should have.

Really? How old are you?
Edit: Don't answer that.

[Torco]

i'm almost thirty and i found it funny

[KathTheDragon]

Who'm I trying to kid? I'd probably find it funny if someone else said it (and it was pointed out to me)

[Cúlro]

I'm 34......

[linguoboy]

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

[Ser]

In a conversation where Slereah asked what you could inflate party balloons with other than with helium/hydrogen, Cev interrupted saying:

<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.

[Qwynegold]

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

It's like a tiny glass of hentai !

[Shrdlu]

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 //

harbl

[jal]

From the Indo-European thread:

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

JAL

[linguoboy]

From the Atheism Thread:

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

[jal]

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."

JAL