The New ZBB Quote Thread

[Man in Space]

I gather you haven't read Baxter-Sagart.

Indeed, not everybody has read Baxter-Sagart.

*sad Baxter-Sagart noises*

[Raphael]

*sad Baxter-Sagart noises*

Concept album?

[Man in Space]

*sad Baxter-Sagart noises*

Concept album?

It’d work with my band…I have ideas now.

[Travis B.]

Concept album?

It’d work with my band…I have ideas now.

Will you have lyrics with liberal amounts of pharyngealization?

[Raphael]

I think this entire exchange should go here:

Does anyone else here want to hunt down and inflict severe pain upon whoever decided to put "n" and "m" together on the keynoard?

keynoard

LOL.

keynoard

LOL.

Of course, I meant keymoard. See what I mean?

[bradrn]

For the new Index Diachronica:

Would be great to see Proto Korean to Modern Korean.

I know professional Koreanists who feel the same way.

[Raphael]

(My parents still tell the story of how, when I was younger, I woke them up in the middle of the night saying, ‘someone’s saying my name!’. It turned out to be the grinding noise of the refrigerator, sounding like: ‘Braaaaaaaaad… Braaaaaaaaaaaaaad… Braaaaaaaaaaaaaad…’.)

[bradrn]

city planning idea: giving the same street multiple thematic name: north to south, a street could be called shave road, a couple of kilometers down change to haircut avenue and the last bit two piece drive.

[bradrn]

Travis has some issues with my language:

Nani mbilisŋumŋun?
[naˈni mbi.lis.ŋumˈŋun]
na-nii mbi-lis·ŋum·ŋun

Too... many... nasals...

[WeepingElf]

Jan Morris (ed.), The Oxford Book of Oxford (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1979)

Doesn't get more Oxford than that, I guess.

The Oxford Book of Oxford, written by and for Oxonians exclusively in the City of Oxford, and even printed exclusively there too, with every word guaranteed 100% Oxonian?