Happy Things Thread

[Imralu]

Thanks!

I'd like to listen when it's on YouTube.

Here it is.

BTW you've been posting some funny shit on FB lately.

Funny ha ha or funny weird?

[Vijay]

Popped into a used bookstore I don't normally visit and they had the exact volume I was looking for and failed to find at three other stores and for half the price I would've paid online.

That's pretty much what it's like for me to find Indian books at a university library. (Big) university libraries have so many books from India you couldn't find in India itself if your life depended on it.

[Viktor77]

Thanks!

I'd like to listen when it's on YouTube.

Here it is.

BTW you've been posting some funny shit on FB lately.

Funny ha ha or funny weird?

It was good. I listened to that one and another one that came after it. Where did you get the voices?

Funny I think. I liked the one about the girl loving her job.

I'm in a good mood because today I got confirmation on what will become the first element of my fieldwork in Belgium for my MA thesis. I am going to go to a francophone community in Flanders and meet its members and to try to begin to work towards my working hypothesis. I need to eventually return to the US with formal interviews but this is step 1. I am nervous but excited. I am fascinated by language minorities.

[jmcd]

Now that makes me wonder what your working hypothesis is.

[Viktor77]

Now that makes me wonder what your working hypothesis is.

For now I should probably keep it on the DL. First thing is to go see who this community is. I need basic information and then I need to work at building a "rapport" with the community so I can eventually interview them and distribute a questionnaire. Anyway, I just wanted to post here that I was happy to finally be getting somewhere with my research.

BTW JMCD what brought you to Réunion again? I know this is so random but I have a good friend who is from there, from the Southwest I think, and yesterday as I was telling her that I knew you I drew a blank on what you're doing there and how you got there. If you don't mind me asking of course.

[Vijay]

He kinda says what brought him to Réunion on the first page of this year's ZBB census.

[Imralu]

It was good. I listened to that one and another one that came after it. Where did you get the voices?

Thanks! There's a text-to-speech generator in the program I use, which is good for robotty voices. For more realistic voices, I usually use this one which is outstanding - not always perfect, but if I pick the phrases carefully, they can come out well. The voices in Tardigrade are samples that I found here (a video which, confusingly, contains no facts) and here..

Funny I think. I liked the one about the girl loving her job.

Haha, yeah. I want her job too. For anyone who's not friends with me on FB, this is the video.

[dhok]

I have a senior thesis topic! Dis volentibus, I'll be writing a fairly long paper (or short monograph? We can hope) on the historical morphology of Menominee.

[jmcd]

Congrats! That sounds awesome!

[linguoboy]

My sister just let me know the names she and my mom decided to give her kidney stones. They are "Hedgehog" and "Creeper".

[WeepingElf]

My sister just let me know the names she and my mom decided to give her kidney stones. They are "Hedgehog" and "Creeper".

Why do you post that here? I don't understand the connection between kidney stones and happiness.

[Vijay]

My sister just let me know the names she and my mom decided to give her kidney stones. They are "Hedgehog" and "Creeper".

Why do you post that here? I don't understand the connection between kidney stones and happiness.

He likes their names?

[linguoboy]

My sister just let me know the names she and my mom decided to give her kidney stones. They are "Hedgehog" and "Creeper".

Why do you post that here? I don't understand the connection between kidney stones and happiness.

Because it means this is something they can joke about rather than a cause for serious concern. "Mom's in the hospital for a CAT scan" is scary. Hearing this a couple hours later came as a tremendous relief.

[gach]

Yes, you are never truly over anything before you can reduce it into humour. It's an added plus if you are able to do macabre jokes.

[linguoboy]

My annual attempt at tesenn safron for St Piran's was once more an unqualified success.

[vampireshark]

Went to a MTG Modern event on Saturday in Trier. Pretty big event, with about 28 or 30 participants. Also took a completely untested deck because reasons... but ended up going 3-2, a winning record. Not good enough for prizes, but the fact that I managed a winning record with a deck I hadn't played before (and, really, that I'd just built the week before!) made me happy.

Also made sure to stock up on groceries: Fanta and candy are both so much cheaper in Germany than here in Luxembourg. So a destructive... er, productive day in all.

[Viktor77]

I've been studying Dutch a bit in secrecy meaning I didn't tell my advisor because I was told to focus on my French so I thought it would reflect badly on me. However, now given that I am to study francophones in Flanders my advisor has given me the green light to not only study Dutch but to seek resources in it to attain conservancy, including a possible summer program in 2017 at KU Leuven or at least at a US university that teaches Dutch like Indiana University. This makes me really excited! Of course French comes before all else but this excites me! I'm also going to start a graduate minor in European Union studies to go along with all of this which is also equally exciting.

[din]

I've been studying Dutch a bit in secrecy meaning I didn't tell my advisor because I was told to focus on my French so I thought it would reflect badly on me. However, now given that I am to study francophones in Flanders my advisor has given me the green light to not only study Dutch but to seek resources in it to attain conservancy, including a possible summer program in 2017 at KU Leuven or at least at a US university that teaches Dutch like Indiana University. This makes me really excited! Of course French comes before all else but this excites me! I'm also going to start a graduate minor in European Union studies to go along with all of this which is also equally exciting.

Cool

"Conservancy", though? I mean, I've heard people mix up the words conversation and conservation before, but not words derived from them (But then, how many people actually say conversance/conversancy?)

[Vijay]

"Conservancy", though? I mean, I've heard people mix up the words conversation and conservation before, but not words derived from them (But then, how many people actually say conversance/conversancy?)

"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve." -George W. Bush, speaking during "Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, New Hampshire

[Viktor77]

"Conservancy", though? I mean, I've heard people mix up the words conversation and conservation before, but not words derived from them (But then, how many people actually say conversance/conversancy?)

"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve." -George W. Bush, speaking during "Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, New Hampshire

I suppose I just thought it was the equivalent of "fluency."

[Salmoneus]

"Conservancy", though? I mean, I've heard people mix up the words conversation and conservation before, but not words derived from them (But then, how many people actually say conversance/conversancy?)

"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve." -George W. Bush, speaking during "Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, New Hampshire

I suppose I just thought it was the equivalent of "fluency."

And conversancy would be a perfectly fine word for that. Well, not for fluency exactly, but familiarity, and we'd have known what you'd meant, even though it's a rare word. The point is, though, conversancy is the noun formed from 'conversant', whereas your choice, 'conservancy', is a noun formed from 'conservant', which has nothing to do with being conversant, only with conserving.

[jmcd]

There was obviously a brain fart at some point. It might've just been a typo.

[Viktor77]

There was obviously a brain fart at some point. It might've just been a typo.

Completely a typo since I'm only realizing now what happened!

Yes when I said 'equivalent' I meant what Sal said.

[Salmoneus]

There was obviously a brain fart at some point. It might've just been a typo.

Yes; but since Viktor continually malapropises when he reaches for more elevated vocabulary, this seemed indicative of a more general tendency.

[Viktor77]

There was obviously a brain fart at some point. It might've just been a typo.

Yes; but since Viktor continually malapropises when he reaches for more elevated vocabulary, this seemed indicative of a more general tendency.

Actually it was indicative of my spell check, which does not recognize "conversancy" as a word. As a result, while typing fast I misplaced a letter or two, and then automatically corrected it thinking nothing of what the final result would be, which was "conservancy."