The New ZBB Quote Thread

[foxcatdog]

Is there a "science fiction future past tense" in English because most sf is written in the past tense?

[Raphael]

repaving the roads to Rome...

All roads need to be repaved...otherwise you get potholes.

[xxx]

repaving the roads to Rome...

All roads need to be repaved...otherwise you get potholes.

it's misquoted, I was quoting masako

[keenir]

All roads need to be repaved...otherwise you get potholes.

it's misquoted, I was quoting masako

Its a perfectly good quotation. You did say that about repaving the roads to rome.

[xxx]

it's misquoted, I was quoting masako

Its a perfectly good quotation. You did say that about repaving the roads to rome.

I was quoting masako

[keenir]

it's misquoted, I was quoting masako

Its a perfectly good quotation. You did say that about repaving the roads to rome.

I was quoting masako

I suppose that may have been your intention, but not how you posted; we all learn from things like this.

repaving the roads to Rome...
it is the best way to appreciate the twists and turns and adapt a new pattern...
...

[xxx]

a quotation doesn't have to be marked as such to be a quotation...
just read the previous post, which is no longer possible in this thread...
so I had to point it out so as not to appropriate masako's words...

[Raphael]

and businessmen don't go around and sell air. Yet.

[Man in Space]

and businessmen don't go around and sell air. Yet.

Wrong.

[Raphael]

and businessmen don't go around and sell air. Yet.

Wrong.

Oh.

[bradrn]

Wrong.

Oh.

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Gee, I wonder why? Yet again, I’m glad that I don’t live in that clearly God-forsaken country.

[WeepingElf]

What is a consonantal root system but ablaut on steroids?

[bradrn]

The incubation of great eccentrics is, of course, the highest calling of any civilization, but it's mostly incompatible with employability.

[bradrn]

My character’s signature weapon is the fire extinguisher. Not the fancy sword given to him by the one adversary he considers worthy. Fire extinguishers. Surprising array of uses, they have.

[Man in Space]

My character’s signature weapon is the fire extinguisher. Not the fancy sword given to him by the one adversary he considers worthy. Fire extinguishers. Surprising array of uses, they have.

I’m not kidding. My character literally has a side business designing, building, and selling fire suppression equipment. I’ve made the GM have to consider the mechanics of what Halon does to things.

Conventional foam fire extinguishers are surprisingly effective point-blank incendiary-denial weapons when deployed against dragons. You can literally snuff out a dragon.

[bradrn]

My character’s signature weapon is the fire extinguisher. Not the fancy sword given to him by the one adversary he considers worthy. Fire extinguishers. Surprising array of uses, they have.

I’m not kidding. My character literally has a side business designing, building, and selling fire suppression equipment. I’ve made the GM have to consider the mechanics of what Halon does to things.

Conventional foam fire extinguishers are surprisingly effective point-blank incendiary-denial weapons when deployed against dragons. You can literally snuff out a dragon.

Sure, but the thought of it makes me laugh. (And the phrasing.)

Also, looking at the preceding page of discussion… has this now turned into the ‘ZBB discussing-whether-Quotes-qualify-or-not-for-the Thread’?

[Travis B.]

At the same time as [Sinn Féin local politician] Joe Austin was being berated on the streets because the IRA hadn’t yet attacked the Shankill, his constituency manager told him to call to an old lady’s house where there was a problem. The cat from next door wouldn’t stop spraying the flowers in her garden. She made it clear that she wanted the IRA to do something about it. Austin called next door, where an unshaven man in a vest looked up from his newspaper and said, ‘Hello, Joe, I suppose it’s about the cat.’ ‘It is.’ ‘Look, I’ll tell you what. It’s not my cat at all. I’m just minding it for a friend. I’ll leave it back and you can get that oul’ wan off my back.’ ‘Good man.’ Austin went back to the old lady’s door: ‘That’s okay about the cat. You’ll have no more trouble.’ The woman was awestruck: ‘Did you get it shot? Did the IRA shoot it? Is it dead?’

[Travis B.]

However, because of the book, I now know that Boris Johnson once wrote a novel called Seventy-Two Virgins, and now, barring dementia or something like that, I can't unlearn that fact.

[Raphael]

Honestly the names feel more Pratchettian than Mesoamerican.

[Raphael]

I'm posting this mainly because it got me thinking about how someone who doesn't know much about linguistics might interpret it:

I’ve never been entirely sure about the precise quality of my /r/s, but I’m pretty sure they are labialised, yes.