The New ZBB Quote Thread

[WeepingElf]

English speakers don't have a "dislike" of pronouncing initial k or g anymore than they have a "dislike" for pronouncing the z in the word "duck."

[Raphael]

Is that some kind of triple negative?

Hard to tell. I lost count when I tried to figure it out.

[alice]

Elrond Hubbard, meanwhile, remained in Middle-Earth and founded the Council of Thetanar. Tom “Crews” Bombadil was a notable convert.

[Raphael]

And if people feel as if the choice was between a restoration of the 50s and Blade Runner, they'll choose the 50s.

[Raphael]

Now I'm going to be a bit mean and quote only the first part of a sentence without the context provided by the rest:

Is anyone else here aware of people existing with MOUTH

[WeepingElf]

Now I'm going to be a bit mean and quote only the first part of a sentence without the context provided by the rest:

Is anyone else here aware of people existing with MOUTH

This is a rather harmless case, but usually, such mutilations of quotes that deface their meaning is utterly unacceptable. That's a method trolls use, and nobody else. Or do you want a sentence like "I do not think that this is the case" quoted as just "this is the case"?

[Raphael]

Now I'm going to be a bit mean and quote only the first part of a sentence without the context provided by the rest:

Is anyone else here aware of people existing with MOUTH

This is a rather harmless case, but usually, such mutilations of quotes that deface their meaning is utterly unacceptable. That's a method trolls use, and nobody else. Or do you want a sentence like "I do not think that this is the case" quoted as just "this is the case"?

You are, of course, right. I'm sorry. I just saw the word sequence "people existing with MOUTH" and couldn't resist. I should be more careful in the future.

[Raphael]

Both parties do this, but the article focuses on the Democrats. Of $390 million raised by the Pascal network of PACs

Pascal? You'd think they had at least graduated to Java. This suddenly explains an awful lot.

[Raphael]

Phonetically that guy's Scots seems as far from Standard English as basilectal forms of my native English are ─ and I am most definitely a native English speaker.

I mean, judging from all you’ve said, I have on occasion wondered whether the current Anglic languages aren’t English, Scots and Travis-ese…

[Man in Space]

Now I'm going to be a bit mean and quote only the first part of a sentence without the context provided by the rest:

Is anyone else here aware of people existing with MOUTH

This is a rather harmless case, but usually, such mutilations of quotes that deface their meaning is utterly unacceptable. That's a method trolls use, and nobody else. Or do you want a sentence like "I do not think that this is the case" quoted as just "this is the case"?

He explained what he did, why he did it, and what made it funny. Quoting “this is the case” in an actual scientific discussion? Party foul. Quoting the excerpt (which has been done on prior occasions, not just in the case of this comment) in a non-serious thread for comedic effect where it’s obviously a goof? Not utterly unacceptable.

EDIT: I think my issue is, Raphael clearly explained that it’s the linguistic implications from that sequence of words that’s the point there and not attempting to imply anything else about the party being quoted. It’s clearly cited that it’s part of a larger passage and that the specific interest is in that it’s notably out of context (along with the, perhaps amusing, interpretations).

[bradrn]

I have seen an American unmaliciously claim that initial [kn] was not a humanly possible combination. (I successfully counterclaimed that Germans were human.)

Thank you, that's a very generous thing to do for a British person.

[WeepingElf]

Now I'm going to be a bit mean and quote only the first part of a sentence without the context provided by the rest:

This is a rather harmless case, but usually, such mutilations of quotes that deface their meaning is utterly unacceptable. That's a method trolls use, and nobody else. Or do you want a sentence like "I do not think that this is the case" quoted as just "this is the case"?

He explained what he did, why he did it, and what made it funny. Quoting “this is the case” in an actual scientific discussion? Party foul. Quoting the excerpt (which has been done on prior occasions, not just in the case of this comment) in a non-serious thread for comedic effect where it’s obviously a goof? Not utterly unacceptable.

EDIT: I think my issue is, Raphael clearly explained that it’s the linguistic implications from that sequence of words that’s the point there and not attempting to imply anything else about the party being quoted. It’s clearly cited that it’s part of a larger passage and that the specific interest is in that it’s notably out of context (along with the, perhaps amusing, interpretations).

Sure. He did not really intend to mutilate a quote for malicious reasons; I did say that the case was "rather harmless". But I felt as if I should tell him that he was using a technique often used for malicious purposes, and characteristic of trolls. And this is of course not an actual scientific discussion, so the standards for such discussions do not apply here.

[Raphael]

An orc is in a fantasy story, an ork is in a scifi story. Don't ask me how to spell it if it's in a science fantasy story.

And in one of the stories, I just came across the phrase "speaking in awk", which made me, as a user of the awk program, smile.

[Travis B.]

Wiktionary, circa 2875 CE: "The intrusive velar stop in the modern reflex 'expresso' is unexplained."

[Raphael]

Not funny, but simply quoted here for truth:

More generally, I think the European conservative platform of 'work a shit job till you drop dead' isn't winning heart and minds.

[Man in Space]

An orc is in a fantasy story, an ork is in a scifi story. Don't ask me how to spell it if it's in a science fantasy story.

orque

[bradrn]

I am subject to correction by our German members, but I believe that even under German law, 39 is higher than 32.

[Qwynegold]

He ze vwevwi zyi ndwinge zyi Travis.

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how could I judge Travis, I who don't speak a word of German...

This reminds me of, was it Navajo? Which calls Chinese people "they drink leaf soup" (i.e. tea).

[Qwynegold]

Most people today do not realize that computer once referred to a human job.

Now it is time for beach to be an occupation.

According to the Barbie movie, it is.

[xxx]

This reminds me of, was it Navajo? Which calls Chinese people "they drink leaf soup" (i.e. tea).

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(one man brain giving new language seen as language of all men...)
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