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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14987423 times)

FearfulJesuit

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #14340 on: August 21, 2012, 02:57:35 pm »

Oh, expensive books.

This is a book vent, not a WTF, but in any case, I really wish someone would man up and put out a tome that was a nice decent synchronic and diachronic survey of Tocharian (A & B, and what little of C we have) that's in English, that I can put on my bookshelf, and that doesn't cost through the nose.
That's a pretty specific request. Also, an awesome one.

I should probably note that I'm one of those amateur linguists who just graduated high school and knows the subject at grad level (this has been confirmed by numerous profs). My personal linguistics library is 10 feet end to end, contains academic grammars and dictionaries on such oddities as Aleut, Middle Egyptian, Yup'ik, and Old Irish (FUCK YEAH OLD IRISH), and... well, take a look at this actual quote I had in Skyping with a friend:

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I'll disclaim that I know the most about Old Irish, Latin and Greek.
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I know some about Sanskrit, Hittite, and the dead Germanic languages
(except old high german)
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but my knowledge of Old Church Slavonic, the minor Anatolian languages, the dead Italic languages besides Latin (ie Oscan, Umbrian and Faliscan), Tocharian, Old Persian/Avestan/Dardic, Armenian, Albanian and the Baltic languages is woefully shoddy

Note that by "knowledge" I meant knowing about those languages; I can read some Latin and Greek, but that's it (and even those are rustier than they have been). I can't read a word of Old Irish, but I can sit down with a piece of paper and pencil and give a quick run-through of the Eldritch abomination that is its verbal system.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #14341 on: August 21, 2012, 03:03:11 pm »

Youse and I'se should conlang sometime. (Which reminds me, I should get off my duff and finish that DF writing system I was working on in Creative Projects...)
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #14342 on: August 21, 2012, 03:05:57 pm »

My sister's friend threw the family cat at me. I caught it by the neck. It happened completely out of the blue. Why are people throwing animals at me?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #14343 on: August 21, 2012, 03:08:16 pm »

Poor kitty.

And poor you if that cat has claws.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #14344 on: August 21, 2012, 03:09:52 pm »

My sister's friend threw the family cat at me. I caught it by the neck. It happened completely out of the blue. Why are people throwing animals at me?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #14345 on: August 21, 2012, 03:11:16 pm »

Poor kitty.

And poor you if that cat has claws.

It did. My hand still stings a bit.

My sister's friend threw the family cat at me. I caught it by the neck. It happened completely out of the blue. Why are people throwing animals at me?
Because you are a vibrating penguin.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #14346 on: August 21, 2012, 03:12:19 pm »

Who wants to hear about the Old Irish verbal system? It's a pretty big WTF.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #14347 on: August 21, 2012, 03:18:32 pm »

The flying cat strikes Vorthon in the palm, bruising the skin!
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« Reply #14348 on: August 21, 2012, 03:21:20 pm »

Try more like tearing the skin. Ouch. At least it's gone from a stinging pain to more of a dull burning sensation now.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #14349 on: August 21, 2012, 03:22:16 pm »

Try more like tearing the skin. Ouch. At least it's gone from a stinging pain to more of a dull burning sensation now.

People heal, that cats pride is damaged forever.
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« Reply #14350 on: August 21, 2012, 03:27:38 pm »

Who wants to hear about the Old Irish verbal system? It's a pretty big WTF.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #14351 on: August 21, 2012, 03:32:02 pm »

http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sagawa-issei.htm

WTF 1: The guy listed.
WTF 2: There's a wiki for murders.
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For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #14352 on: August 21, 2012, 03:33:13 pm »

My cousin threw a cat at me once when we were young. In her defense, she was like 5 and it was more of a "Here'smyfavoritekittyilovehimsomuchwannaholdhim?" *FLING*

Said cat was like 13 damn pounds. And just as shocked as I was. Latched a paw into each shoulder and two more into my ribs. I'm sure if there had been video, it would be a meme by now.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #14354 on: August 21, 2012, 03:38:26 pm »

http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sagawa-issei.htm

WTF 1: The guy listed.
WTF 2: There's a wiki for murders.
And now Japan has hit a whole new level of WTF?! for me. Not only is this dude walking around free after checking himself out of a mental institution (having been found "sane but evil"), he's a celebrity with books, TV appearances, and even appeared in a movie!
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