[plug] conference linguistics.

[Ben Jensz]

I didn't know it was possible to say "rock" as many times as Stewart 
Smith did at the Linux Australia SGM before the AGM.... sheesh...

I wonder if all of the times he said it will be reflected in the minutes 
for that meeting :P


/ Ben


Shayne O'Neill wrote:

>Its funny you say that.
>
>I went to an enviromental conference last year and watched a rather bizare
>language meme spread thru the conf that had me baffled.
>
>A few folks in perth had taken to replying to things afirmatively by
>saying "yeah yeah", which I dubbed 'double afirmative'.
>
>Before long *EVERYONE* was doing it.
>
>By the end of the conference I almost felt my ears where going to bleed
>with this little linguistic oddity. Every eng-lit educated bone in my body
>was reeling at it.
>
>Humans are funny things like that.
>
>:)
>
>Shayne
>
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>On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Russell Steicke wrote:
>>
>>| [0] If I get to LCA2005 I'm going to conduct a count of the number of
>>| times I hear the work "cool" over the conf.  There were many, many of
>>| them this year.  :)
>>
>>Indeed.  What's worse is that I appear to have picked up the habit...
>>now I'm trying consciously not to overuse the word.
>>
>>Cameron.
>>
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