Famous CBB Quotes Thread

[Man in Space]

My brain is obsessed with reanalyzing the word chimpanzee to a word that uses the suffix -ee meaning the patient of a verb. This would imply a transitive verb "to chimpanz", with chimpanzee meaning one who is chimpanzed. This further extends to a agentive noun chimpanzer, one who chimpanzes. Then I reanalyze chimpanzer into chimp + panzer, and picture a chimp driving a tank.

[Arayaz]

Remeber, c before e, except after i. Or something.

[Arayaz]

I made many great posts in this thread and I can't find them...

This is why whenever I say something genius/witty/awesome I write it down in a notebook. That way, when I die and people read it (because I'll have destroyed any other evidence of who I was) their first impression of me will be:



And they will cry the rest of their lives, thinking of how the world used to be a better place.

The deleted photo makes this hit 1000% better now.

One hundred percent. Every time I look through this thread I think that.

[WeepingElf]

I made many great posts in this thread and I can't find them...

This is why whenever I say something genius/witty/awesome I write it down in a notebook. That way, when I die and people read it (because I'll have destroyed any other evidence of who I was) their first impression of me will be:



And they will cry the rest of their lives, thinking of how the world used to be a better place.

The deleted photo makes this hit 1000% better now.

One hundred percent. Every time I look through this thread I think that.

Yes. It looks as if the "no longer available" sign was the image originally meant to be there.

[Man in Space]

Quoting this whole thing to include useful context:

Latin NUNC "now"
Spanish nunca "never" < NUMQUAM

It's nunc or nunca ...

Venī strictē mē tentum

Google Translate suggests that this is Latvian? Goes to show how much it knows; I am sure it is Latin. Yet is this a pun of some sort that I am not getting? I have looked up the definitions of the words ─ yet I feel there is deeper meaning than I am seeing ─ I am not a scholar of Latin; I know not what it truly means. Are some of these false friends, perchance? Or am I overanalyzing the words I see?

"It's now or never, come hold me tight" from Elvis Presley's song.

Ahhhh, I'm afraid I've never listened to much by Elvis, and didn't get the reference ...

I don't listen to him either. It's a quite well-known song though.

FWIW, the song is by Eduard di Capua, based on a tune by Alfredo Mazzucchi, and was written in 1898. At the time Elvis sang it, it was already quite well known in the US, both in its original Neapolitan version and with new English lyrics. Elvis paid some guys to write new lyrics for his version.

And yes, the Elvis single is one of the ten best-selling singles of all time.

[Man in Space]

[...] the time when spambots discovered kitchen-sink (conlangs) and tried to sell us kitchens

And then we made a conlang out of it.

[Khemehekis]

Well, it happened. I tweaked somigos (introspection) to create soumoigz, a verb meaning "to introspect".

Kankonian is now at 100,000 words! Tied with Mmavvii! Woo-hoo!

Congratulations! sumurayo':

That is such an auspicious number! Nine out of ten Hindu mystics agree: if you reach one hundred thousand, you will have good lakh.

[Khemehekis]

I know we say there's no necroposting on the CBB, but it kind of annoys me when threads last posted on when I wasn't yet two months old are revived.

[zyma]

bĭ t ch

[Khemehekis]

I swear syntax is like entering a different universe.