The Official ZBB Quote Thread

[Nesescosac]

So Pictish is a linguistic will o' the wisp, a faintly visible light in the midnight swamp of history that never comes into full view and only leads you deeper and deeper into the swamp until finally you drown in the mire and it feeds off your dissipating life energies, which manifest in the form of fact-free but overzealously defended theories. If you're smart, you'll steer clear of the damned thing.

[Torco]

el el ninho
el el ninho

WE WILL WE WILL SPANISH YOU

el el ninho

I think you dropped this:
*picks something from the ground*
oh, here it is: <ñ>

long live the eñe

[Whimemsz]

<Zayk> this is the most ridiculous campaign cycle I've ever seen
<Nae> Zayk: most ridiculous campaign unicycle
<Nae> where unicycle = GOP presidential campaign
<Nae> the clown riding it = Mitt Romney
<Nae> the balls the clown is juggling = political issues
...
<Nae> obama is riding a donkey
<Nae> the donkey kinda just sauntering slowly
<Nae> towards the goal line
<Nae> and obama is shouting "you should breathe air to survive"
<Nae> and the tea party (represented as a bunch of monkies dressed as indians) start holding their breaths when they're screeching
<Nae> someone needs to be Whiteface
<Nae> ... maybe Obama.
<Nae> that works on too many levels
<guitarplayer> (this cartoon has already approached the complexity of a victorian cartoon)
<Zayk> are you complaining?

[Click]

Cognate: anuspasta-, ‘guarded’ (Sanskrit)

: '

anus pasta

O_o

Oh, sorry, slight typo.
Apparently it's actually meant to be "anus-pasta".

Hope that clears that up.

[Herr Dunkel]

And this doesn't fall apart and devolve into a vote-by-friendship and eventual nepotism how?

The absence of Those Darned Liberals, of course!

Sal, you're on a quote spree.

[Click]

Indication you've been doing too much IE-langing: yesterday, in response to what was going on in front of me (several people debating what to do about something) while I was thinking of something else, I thought 'why don't we just put him in the zero-grade, that way we can... hang on, that wouldn't help at all!... Oh, wait, he's a person, he doesn't have ablaut-forms, does he?'

Oh dear.

[Jipí]

<vlad> would you like to see a good minecraft video
<Cev> maybe
<vlad> does that mean no
<Cev> no
<Cev> it means maybe
<vlad> okay
<vlad> I'll link half of it then
<vlad> http://www.youtube.co
<Cev> :|
<vlad> do you want the other half
<Cev> no
<vlad> k

[HandsomeRob]

Originality in combining a set of grammatical accidents no one else has combined before is probably the least creative way of being creative.

[ol bofosh]

yo, gringa!

tickles and pee

LAUGH I am not an overly excitable dog thank you very much! XD

Made me XD

[linguoboy]

Unsolicited, well-meant but slightly rude advice? On MY internet?

I'll have you know, my MP will be hearing about this!

[Nortaneous]

Sometimes people hypercorrect, too. Last night I asked a guy what kind of car his was, and he said "Subar" (we were mostly speaking English). Eh? I had to explain to him that since it's a Japanese name, in English we don't drop the 'u' from the end of Subaru. (Aside from that, I don't really know how it's supposed to be pronounced in English; the pronunciation /ˈsuːbəruː/, given on wikipedia, sounds wrong, like it's too american or something, and I was pronouncing it /suˈbaru/.)

Because I'm from Toronto I hear this all the time. No one seems to believe it's really called Toronto; anyone who is capable of pronouncing it as "Tront" will invariably do so.

[Qwynegold]

About Proto-World splitting up into different languages:

"Wait, everyone we have to stick together until we've figured out how to say conditional sentences!"

"If we don't stick together ... wait ... how do I finish this sentence? I want to tell you about the consequences. Stop! Why are you leaving?"

[Torco]

Why powerpoint?

• Outlines easier to write than text
• Gives audience something to look at, feel they can grasp
• Headline style is addictive
• Way faster, less geeky than writing on transparencies

Crutch for poor speakers:

• Sounds way better than reading from a text
• Looks professional, even though it's basically your notes
• Everyone else does it: conformity is good
• Pretty easy to fill out four bullet points

Can we do better?

• Just e-mailing the .ppt would be faster
• Audience entirely passive
• E-Z to create means little thought went into it
• Paradox: any better method will have to be explained in Powerpoint

[Qwynegold]

Composed of chidí naaʼnaʼí (“caterpillar tractor”), from chidí (“car”) + naaʼnaʼ (“it crawls about”) + -í (“nominalizer”); and beeʼeldǫǫhtsoh (“cannon”), from the verb beeʼeldǫǫh (“explosion is made with it”) + the adjectival enclitic tsoh (“big”); and the particle bikááʼ (“on it”) plus the verb dah naaznil (“they sit up”) plus -ígíí (“nominalizer”)

So "a big one that explosions are made with that is sitting up on a car that crawls about" I guess

"Hey, we've got to leg it because I just saw a chidí naaʼnaʼí beeʼeldǫǫ..." BANG!!!

It's a little known fact that tanks were first developed during the Indian Wars to take advantage of this very weakness

[tiramisu]

11:38:08 <Slereah> 80$ is like my monthly dildo budget
11:38:21 <Zayk> how many dildos do you own
11:38:25 <Slereah> A few
11:38:29 <Zayk> and where do you get this money from
11:38:33 <Zayk> do you work?
11:38:38 <Slereah> NOPE
11:38:44 <Zayk> so where do you get this money from
11:38:49 <Slereah> You know
11:38:52 <Slereah> TAX PAYER MONEY

[Whimemsz]

it's funny because he's French

[linguoboy]

you are all very mean people, trying to ruin astraios' fun. he is obviously very happy with his adventure holiday, or whatever the fuck he is doing being useless in the middle of a war zone, where he gets to be surrounded by people who actually *are* in danger while he gets off on being a princess who is merely *sexily near* danger -- there are bombs in the distance which give him a fright, but the main detrimental effect on his life from them is disrupting his beauty sleep. he's happy with his gilded cage, because unlike that stupid bitch Belle, he *knows* not to go to the west tower because there is nothing and nobody of value to him there anyway! those people who *look* to be heavily armed and vigiliant guards who are putting themselves in danger are really just big burly men fussing over him to make sure he is safe, which is how these things go in jerusalem and really doesn't he deserve it (and don't they? woof woof!)?! there are noises and people get shot, but they're not him so it's all good. there's even a bomb shelter, isn't that like *so* world war two? fabulous!

[cromulant]

why the alarmed

(s/al//)

no inca sandwiches

[tiramisu]

"Nobody wants to hit a Hooker" -- NBC commentators

[Shrdlu]

Hooker? Sound like Ima Hogg.

[Zontas]

Oh, who am I kidding? When is Patiku ever sincere?

I believe he's sincere in asking for free stuff.

[Nortaneous]

It's spelled "breathe" you guys.

I will spell it however I choose English is the insane language!

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[Wattmann]

Speak is simple because Mine Sound = My words, I speak, etc. And a "You" Speak would be "Sound" while looking at a person. The Leader during a hunt should be the only one to speak and it's only needed to dictate who speaks in a meeting, generally with a whole tribe so "Speak" might derive from Leader Sound, but just as likely the women of the tribe, since they aren't on hunts, and speak all the time to each other, the men might jokingly call speach "Woman Sound" which is kinda funny if you think about it considering all the "A woman will not speak unless spoken to" shit in the world, that the word might have derived from women speaking.

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[Qwynegold]

Speak is simple because Mine Sound = My words, I speak, etc. And a "You" Speak would be "Sound" while looking at a person. The Leader during a hunt should be the only one to speak and it's only needed to dictate who speaks in a meeting, generally with a whole tribe so "Speak" might derive from Leader Sound, but just as likely the women of the tribe, since they aren't on hunts, and speak all the time to each other, the men might jokingly call speach "Woman Sound" which is kinda funny if you think about it considering all the "A woman will not speak unless spoken to" shit in the world, that the word might have derived from women speaking.

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[Wattmann]

Þakka þér, Qwynegold