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    • CommentAuthorSwingSis
    • CommentTimeApr 20th 2007
     

    Is 3 am late enough? I just did a ten hour stretch to finish my research project. Most of it just crunching numbers, the rest to figure out what on earth they meant. But I now know more about Spanish pronunciation of p, b, u, and o than anyone was ever meant to know. My roommate took to sleeping on the couch when I kept replying her boyfriend saying 'ibula' over and over again, trying to pick out the dratted voiced bilabial fricative so I could measure its dratted intensity.

    Yay for linguistics [Emoticon not found]

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeApr 20th 2007
     

    Yikes, I just found out that japanese has a voiceless bilabial fricative that I didn't know about. But yours were voiced huh? Double yikes.

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeApr 20th 2007
     

    I'll voice YOUR bilabial fricatives...

    In other news, I should be staying up for ten hour stretches to finish my project. I was due on Monday.

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeApr 20th 2007
     
    Foehg:

    I was due on Monday.

    Is it a boy or a girl?

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeApr 20th 2007
     

    Whatever it is, it had better know a lot about symbolism and metaphor in twentieth century Russian poetry, and weigh in at 6 to 8 pages.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2007
     
    SwingSis:

    Yay for linguistics [Emoticon not found]

    another linguistics nerd! yay! do you write secret notes to your other linguistics friends in ipa too? [Emoticon not found]

    • CommentAuthorSwingSis
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2007
     

    No, but I tell terrible, terrible jokes.

    Q: What does the BYU Linguist say when she hurts herself?

    A: Ahh... frick it.

    When I write in IPA, I end up with people asking if I'm writing in Russian a lot.

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2007
     

    Down with lingutstsicsas.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2007
     
    Buzz:

    lingutstsicsas

    i'll pay you a dollar if you can pronounce that.

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2007
     

    It's easier if you take "tsts" as a geminate voiceless alveolar affricate.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2007
     

    grant: go to sleep already. gosh!

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2007
     

    But... but... I was jsut starting to have fun!!

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2007
     

    at 3 in the morning? wow. studying, or can't sleep....or is this normal? [Emoticon not found]

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2007
     

    Studying has done a number on my body clock. I just got done watching Signs... and talking on the phone with a classmate, so that kinda counts as studying.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2007
     

    ok. well...i'm going to sleep now. and getting up again in five hours. wee! yay coming back to utah after a crazy-month-long-week. good luck with you finals. [Emoticon not found]

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2007
     
    traci:

    good luck with you finals. [Emoticon not found]

    Good luck with you finals too.

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2007
     

    woo hoo!

    sleep is overrated anyway.

    • CommentAuthorSwingSis
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2007
     

    Darn you all for NOT being up so late! I'm running on London time now, so it's one o'clock in the afternoon here. I need to know how many watts a power converter needs to be rated for to safely run my laptop, since the converter I brought with me is a two-pin instead of a three-pin american socket, and I have to order a new one off of Amazon UK (I don't wanna mess up again!). 45W? 50W? 100W?

    Silly provolones are all asleep at six in the morning. [Emoticon not found]

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2007
     

    what kind of laptop? some are as low as 35 watt, some as much as 80...

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2007
     

    As I recall from the last time I was buying power adapters, the price doesn't ramp up that steeply as you increase wattage ratings. Maybe just shell out the extra, what, ~$10 for the 1600W monster, and you'll be fine even if you have to plug in an americkan hair dryer.

    Better too high than too low, eh?

    • CommentAuthorSwingSis
    • CommentTimeMay 5th 2007
     

    Actually, the one I have has both a 50W and a 1600W setting -- $20 at Walmart. The computer guy said it should work fine for my laptop to use to 50W, but now I'm paranoid that I'll get it wrong again. I have an HP Pavilion with a 2.8 (ampron, I think?) processor. The problem with price is that it does go up a lot for wattage in the UK, and I can't afford shipping a US one here. Getting a 100W one shouldn't be too bad, though, since it's only £10-£15 pounds or so.

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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeMay 7th 2007
     

    What does the power adapter say, (Watts, volts amps?). If it doesn't have watts, you can multiply volts and amps to get it.

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeMay 7th 2007
     

    Yeah, but where would you get the amps?

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeMay 7th 2007
     

    You can get them at any car stereo place.

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeMay 7th 2007
     

    walmart sells cheap amps.

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      CommentAuthorFoehg
    • CommentTimeMay 7th 2007
     

    I was hoping I could pick them up at the Tosche station when I swing by for some power converters.

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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeMay 8th 2007
     

    You can play with your friends after your chores are done.

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