The New ZBB Quote Thread

[Raphael]

Nobody follows the Libertarians because, well, to carry your metaphor further, what they're doing is riding into battle stark naked with a snake in each hand screaming something unintelligible.

Is that even a metaphor? Sounds like a literal description.

[Vijay]

And this is where the paradox of tolerance comes in. It's good to be tolerant of others in general, but even the most tolerant of people should be intolerant of baseless intolerance. Otherwise, groups that are baselessly intolerant will eventually replace the ones who are tolerant, often violently.

[Raphael]

As usual, the computers I use at work are locked for security reasons, so some operations can only be done by an admin. This means that you need an admin password to update your programs, or to scan the disks with an antivirus. The result is that most programs are out of date, and antivirus scans happen once in a blue moon. For security reasons.

[Vijay]

Creator of English, do you think it's cute to have "kiss" and "kill" differ only in the coda? Do you think it's clever? It's neither.

[Linguoboy]

Years are absurdly parochial. We should count in Planck time units. Neuralink will hopefully provide us soon with a neurimplant to handle these, adjusted for relativistic effects.

[Vijay]

Edouard Philippe can run too, I dig the cool beard.

(For outsiders: Edouard Philippe is our previous prime minister, generally well-liked. It helps that he has an air of gravitas about him, and also a cool beard.

[Raphael]

EDIT: I used to have a friend who always called Malayalam "Palindrome."

[Vijay]

I'm pretty sure I remember that friend specifically writing (on Skype) at one point: "how do you say that in palindrome? " (<- with that little waggy tongue smiley that Skype at least used to have)

I could go on and point out everything that was wrong in that article, but listing what was right'll be quicker: I didn't notice any major spelling errors.

[bradrn]

Hau men weini gen gumen hiraganamu gum moha oryaman

Hau

HORT

men

ACT.2s

weini

explain

gen

Q

gum-en

INST-2s

hiragana-mu

hiragana-MED

gum

INST

mo-ha

way-what

orya-man

ABL-all

Please explain what on earth you are doing with those hiragana

悪しい物をら。「をるしいもどをら。」(wo-ru-si-i mo-do-do-wo)
Worushi modôra.
evil.ADJ thing.ACC.PL.
"Evil things."

EDIT: Also:

I could go on and point out everything that was wrong in that article, but listing what was right'll be quicker: I didn't notice any major spelling errors.

[Vijay]

I could go on and point out everything that was wrong in that article, but listing what was right'll be quicker: I didn't notice any major spelling errors.

EDIT: Also:

I could go on and point out everything that was wrong in that article, but listing what was right'll be quicker: I didn't notice any major spelling errors.

Lol

One time, my family and I took a plane to Norfolk, and when I learned how Norfolk was pronounced, I said, "Are we allowed to say that word on the plane?"

I take it you mean Norfolk in East Anglia? Because the city in Virginia is pronounced "Norfook".

In this part of the world that would make the situation worse.

[Raphael]

bradrn announces having a Big List Of Papers:

Let me look through my Big List Of Papers… ah, here we go:

[alice]

bradrn announces having a Big List Of Papers:

Let me look through my Big List Of Papers… ah, here we go:

It's a BLOP!!!

[bradrn]

…I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before, haven’t I? (I’d be happy to share it if people want, but it has 500 papers on linguistics alone, and is very poorly organised and continuously growing.)

[KathTheDragon]

I have come to the conclusion that some of those were definitely words in English.

[Vijay]

bradrn announces having a Big List Of Papers:

Let me look through my Big List Of Papers… ah, here we go:

It's a BLOP!!!

I fully intend to neglect my home life and work life for the foreseeable future in order to get some serious work done, so wish me luck.

Oh, now I picture you sitting wild-eyed at a table, with a bottle of absinthe and grammar of Old Irish at hand, harried children running around crying...

EDIT: This isn't the only quote I forgot, I just know it...

Polls find that over 60% of Republicans swallow Trump's lies about election fraud. [...] On the plus side, they're eager to contract Covid and die or get permanent brain damage.

Or penis damage. I wonder if the death cultists realize that erectile dysfunction is a common side effect in Covid survivors.

EDIT2: Well, I don't think I was thinking of posting this, but why not?

D[utch] aftrekplek (meeting spot for illicit prostitution) and A[frikaans] aftrekplek (parking spot)

[dɮ the phoneme]

My goals include the following:

- Correct the errors and typos—except for the word “changeling” in the changelog, which is really funny to me

[Qwynegold]

It would be more useful to be able to *predict* a phoneme inventory from its ecology. One can imagine, for example, a language spoken in Antarctica to make much use of the biabial trill.

[bradrn]

In the end, what is more American than driving to another state to circumvent laws limiting what kinds of personal explosives you can set off in your backyard? Or in random parks? Or anywhere else that suits your fancy, thus terrorizing neighborhood pets for days to come?

This message has been brought to you by your local association of “I didn’t even know my cat fit under the couch”.

[bradrn]

Is it destroyed enough yet?

You shall not destroy but transform.

it could be destroyed further. engage tangut beams

[Raphael]

Also consider now archaic uses of English meat.

Which is a contraction of me + eat, of course