The New ZBB Quote Thread

[Linguoboy]

I read everything linguoboy writes in Truman Capote's voice, so the sarcasm is default.

[Zju]

They only need to be 1 femtohitler less evil [...]

Your mistake is thinking that one choice is only "1 femtohitler" less evil than the other choice.

[Man in Space]

Architecture, as opposed to a dude making himself a house, . . .

It really is the little things sometimes.

[Travis B.]

Trawɐvistɔe rastevie, dɔstiganᔕee w wᴉsɔtu bɔꞁee 1 metra. Stebeꞁ gɔlᴉj, rebristᴉj. ʞasʇ stebꞁɐ, pɔgru𑨖cvvaɐ w pɔʞwu, wᴉpuskaet dꞁivvᴉe pɔbegi (dꞁivɔj 15—20, u vekɔtɔrᴉh sɔrtɔw 40—50 sm). Ꞁist kartɔfeꞁɐ tcmvɔ-zeꞁcvᴉj, prerᴉwistɔ-veparvɔperistɔrasseʞcvvᴉj, sɔstɔit iz kɔveʞvɔj dɔꞁi, veskɔꞁkih par (3—7) bɔkɔwᴉh dɔꞁej, razmeᔕcvvᴉh ɔdva prɔtiw drugɔj, i prɔme𑨖utɔʞvᴉh dɔꞁek me𑨖du vimi. Νeparvaɐ dɔꞁɐ vazᴉwaetsɐ kɔveʞvɔj, parvᴉe dɔꞁi iment pɔrɐdkɔwᴉe vazwaviɐ — perwaɐ para, wtɔraɐ para i t. d. (sʞct wedctsɐ ɔt kɔveʞvɔj dɔꞁi). Dɔꞁi i dɔꞁki sidɐt va ster𑨖eʌkah, prikrepꞁcvvᴉh k ster𑨖vn, vi𑨖vɐɐ ʞasʇ kɔtɔrɔgɔ perehɔdit w ʞereƨɔk. ɔkɔlɔ dɔꞁej par razmeᔕantsɐ eᔕc bɔꞁee melkie dɔꞁki. Tswetki belᴉe, rɔzɔwᴉe i fiɔꞁetɔwᴉe, sɔbravᴉ ᔕitkɔm va werhuƨke stebꞁɐ, ʞaƨeʞka i wevʞik pɐtirazdeꞁvᴉe. Plɔd — mvɔgɔsemɐvvaɐ, tcmvɔ-zeꞁcvaɐ, ɐdɔwitaɐ ɐgɔda diametrɔm 2 sm, pɔ fɔrme vapɔmivanᔕaɐ maꞁeʌkij pɔmidɔr. W zeꞁcvᴉh wegetatiwvᴉh ʞastɐh rasteviɐ sɔder𑨖itsɐ alkalɔid sɔlaviv, kɔtɔrᴉj slu𑨖it dꞁɐ zaᔕitᴉ rasteviɐ ɔt pɔra𑨖eviɐ bakteriɐmi i vekɔtɔrᴉmi widami vasekɔmᴉh. W swɐzi s эtim pɔzeꞁevewƨie klubvi kartɔfeꞁɐ vesъedɔbvᴉ, hɔtɐ udaꞁevie pɔwerhvɔsti va zvaʞiteꞁvun glubivu (bɔꞁee 1 sm) i bɔꞁee dꞁiteꞁvaɐ termɔɔbrabɔtka sɔhravɐnt egɔ sъedɔbvɔsʇ.

(^:

For a moment there I was honestly worried I’d had a stroke. (Luckily, then I noticed the username.)

[Raphael]

I think I’m not making my confusion entirely clear.

[Raphael]

It's like when people are surprised there is any language other than Indian in India.

[Raphael]

I am used to [aːːːːːːː] here.

[Raphael]

But love should be there too, or else why bother?

It's claimed that most people recover from love, though it takes a few years.

[Travis B.]

EDIT: And I have now been given an even better/worse idea: Rewriting My Immortal in the style of the Vedas.

[Travis B.]

Wež oož kaž aa, literally "I use my eyes | he dies in an accident caused by another" probably means "I saw him die in an accident", but could also mean "I accidentally killed him with my eyes".

[Man in Space]

My usage of miles was greatly influenced by watching Top Gear. As for feet and inches, I just grew up using them, and never met anyone who seemed baffled by the concept, so I kept using them. I've heard other people who are equally as Australian as I am, if not more so, asking for a conversion from cms to feet and inches for height. Maybe that's just cause SA is more backwards than the East. Perhaps they're still using cubits in Tasmania.

[Raphael]

Wouldn't the Esperanto of cuisine just be Italian food cooked using Polish methods and with a few token dishes from other European countries cooked in haphazard ways?

[bradrn]

One thing I should note is that <ö ü> are treated as simply allographs of <o u> in America, as demonstrated by the infamous "heavy metal umlaut",

Oh, I handle that by simply pronouncing it. If the bands didn't want me to pronounce it, they shouldn't have put it there.

[Raphael]

I am learning Esperanto throuĝ Duolingo and once Tajpi has been installed, it makes "c h" as ĉ automatically.
[...]
The vocabulary, with some fluency in Spaniŝ and knowledge of Frenĉ word roots is easy to learn.

[Raphael]

Note: although I'm not from Wisconsin, I have noticed that recordings of Wisconsinites from 60~70 years ago speak roughly the same form of GA that I do.

[Travis B.]

I think on day one of university level higher math, the professor says "Listen, since every other field is just a specific application of ours, that means that once you get good at math, by definition you are also good at botany, sociology, meteorology, geology, neurosurgery, HVAC engineering, and Central Asian history. Go nuts."

[Raphael]

(Alas, all my design skills seem to melt away into nothing when confronted by the horror that is CSS.)

[Man in Space]

I was going through my drafts folder on the board and I found this:

Then again, all other fonts say "i'm the kind of person who changes fonts on his documents", which... I _guess_ might be a minus in some contexts?

in related news, I once used century gothic on a resume

[Raphael]

Never forget that writing systems are usually not designed by phonologists. People sometimes have the oddest notions of what represents a "sound unit" or whatever worthy of a grapheme of its own.

[Raphael]

Sometime, not while you're eating, look up the history of guinea worms. And then reflect on the fact that other animals can get guinea worms too.