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Parties and Events / Re: End-of-Semester-Party
« on: 2007-02-11 16:53:39 »
Long black skirt? *g*

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Parties and Events / Re: End-of-Semester-Party
« on: 2007-02-10 21:29:01 »
Revised: I will be there, provided that I've risen from the dead again (I'm not gonna be much alive after two consecutive exams on Thursday... that's also the reason why I'm not going anywhere after all...).

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Parties and Events / Re: End-of-Semester-Party
« on: 2007-02-05 23:19:50 »
hum... sorry to say so, but I'll probably not be there... no c-y-cake, either, because I'm leaving on Thursday evening... anyway, if there's anything that can be done while cramming for exams at the same time, tell me and I'll gladly help...

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General topics / Re: Evaluation for block seminars?
« on: 2007-02-03 18:49:13 »
Jaja... Liebe ist eine Weltsprache... *what* nice *proposal*?  Sthg we have to know? ;) Of course I have that specific seminar in mind, but I think it could generally help... also to make them invite good lecturers (like Shravan Vasishth) more often!

(OT: Btw, keeping my fingers crossed for your most beloved palindrome  :) )

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General topics / Evaluation for block seminars?
« on: 2007-02-03 18:34:46 »
As every year, there will be block seminars taught in the week after the end of the WiSe and also in the week before the SoSe starts. I've attended several such block seminars throughout my life as a student and never once was handed an evaluation form at the end of such a seminar (in contrast to the ones we have to fill out for every regular seminar...). However, if these seminars are never evaluated, some of them will be taught year after year by the same person in the same manner without ever improving - in some cases, you could call that stagnation tragical. I suggest the Fachschaft take care that these seminars are treated like the regular ones even in that respect: either ask the people in charge of evaluation to consider these seminars, too, or get some evaluation forms, hand them out and collect them ourselves and then give them to whoever usually evaluates them (confront them with the facts ;))...

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General topics / Re: Klausurenordner
« on: 2007-02-03 18:28:54 »
If we're really legally allowed to do that, then what L.L. is doing with the T.T. exams is illegal - keeping them in so next year's students won't be able to look at them (and he'll probably be able to reuse them)... what should the Fachschaft do in such a case? In general, I like the idea very much.

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Parties and Events / Re: Brechtbaufest - Cleanup
« on: 2007-02-02 00:26:28 »
Okay, so I'm trying to keep you sane. :D Hoping to hear news for TaCos soon...

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Parties and Events / Re: Brechtbaufest - Cleanup
« on: 2007-02-01 21:22:11 »
True. But "keep him from starving" sounds so much more dramatical---  :D But let's stop this, it's really OT.

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Parties and Events / Re: Brechtbaufest - Cleanup
« on: 2007-02-01 20:22:32 »
No, I didn't feel offended. I know he *should* look after himself, but I can't let him starve, can I?  ;)

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Parties and Events / Re: Brechtbaufest - Cleanup
« on: 2007-02-01 14:10:56 »
Somebody just has to remind Aleks of the many important things he'd forget otherwise...

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Parties and Events / Re: End-of-Semester-Party
« on: 2007-01-31 16:31:49 »
The date sounds okay to me, there's the weekend in-between, in any case. And if even I'm saying it's okay, who else should object?  ;D I hereby explicitly allow Aleks and Guy to break the glasses left from the candles  *iff* they can find someone who's getting married to honour with that slightly destructive act :D . If I manage to, I can finally bake a CYCake... my last exam is on Thursday, so...

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Parties and Events / Re: Brechtbaufest - Cleanup
« on: 2007-01-31 16:27:13 »
Aleks, where are you? DG says you can send in the Java HW late because everybody else is doing so all the time, so you really should! Also remember to eat and get some sleep!!!

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Small talk / Neue Sprüche
« on: 2007-01-29 18:01:58 »
"Jeder Hund, den eine Frau trat, biss sie. ... Das ist auch 'n düsteres Kapitel... wie die Relativsätze gemacht werden..."

"Das ist teuflisch, wenn man das genau beschreibt, aber ich sag euch, was dabei rauskommt."

"Die Typen, das ist 'ne ganz teuflische Sache. Da hab ich mich auch am Wochenende mit beschäftigt, da bin ich verrückt geworden." (Zum wievielten Mal jetzt? Hoffen wir, dass sich das gegenseitig aufhebt...) ;)

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Parties and Events / Re: Brechtbaufest - Cleanup
« on: 2007-01-29 10:58:12 »
Ach nee, und wir feiern, bis er kommt, oder wie? Aber das können wir als Motto fürs nächste Brechtbaufest nehmen, für die netten orangenen Plakate...

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Parties and Events / Re: Brechtbaufest - Cleanup
« on: 2007-01-29 10:39:55 »
@poetry: Ys, bt nt cnfrmng t pncttn rls s nt tht crtv nlss t srvs  clrly dstngshbl prps (...dnr yw rht ht t nttrw vh dlhs)

@pictures: quite nice, glad I don't look toooooooooo terrible.

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Parties and Events / Re: Brechtbaufest - Cleanup
« on: 2007-01-28 19:42:10 »
Yesssssssssssssss! Let's tell them to organize one of the Clubhausfeste - and let us be in charge of the bar!!! (Can anybody explain to me why I, the absolute antialcoholic, am so keen on this?  ::) ) I can't see why a poet should not need punctuation marks, and I know *something* about poetry... Johannes, I really should have returned with better shoes, but I was just so tired... :-\

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Parties and Events / Re: Brechtbaufest - Cleanup
« on: 2007-01-28 14:45:33 »
And maybe print our advertisement posters in advance... but let's use orange paper again, people will remember better...  Guy, just one question: why do you never use punctuation marks?  :)

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Small talk / Re: Stechowriositätenkabinett
« on: 2007-01-28 13:11:49 »
Nö, will ich auch gar nicht. Weitere Stechowriosität:

(über das Ausrechnen von Satzbedeutungen per Lambda-Kalkül, im Brustton der Überzeugung)
"Wenn man's selber macht, dann merkt man, dass es richtig kommt!" 

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Small talk / Re: Stechowriositätenkabinett
« on: 2007-01-27 19:24:14 »
Armin, was für ein Zitat?

"Da muss man lange nachdenken. Man schläft dann gar nicht mehr - da geht es mir nicht anders als euch."

"Das ist alles trivial."

Mehr fällt mir nicht ein, aber ich kann ja Anne fragen...

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Parties and Events / Re: Things needed for BBfest
« on: 2007-01-27 19:18:16 »
!!! Aleks !!!  >:( If you still had any feathers to lose...

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Parties and Events / Re: Brechtbaufest - Cleanup
« on: 2007-01-27 19:16:44 »
Hi everybody! This was a great success  :D ! Thanks to all who had a share in making this work! And next year is gonna be even better because we now know we need to buy more alcohol...  ;) The coathangers are not mine, but Kilian's, so you better ask him where to put them. The glasses can be thrown away if nobody wants to keep them; I will have more than enough until next year. Johannes, sorry for not staying to help cleaning (next time, I'll bring a spare pair of shoes in which I can actually walk...  :-[ ) ... And about not putting the tables in the correct order, but as I arrived after they had been rearranged last afternoon, I had no idea about what the room looked like earlier. Hope you can forgive me this one time... About the scarf: Maybe it's still behind the pillar where all the coats were piled up? If nobody else wants them, I'd like to keep the spectrograms.

Greetings,
Laura

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Parties and Events / Re: Things needed for BBfest
« on: 2007-01-25 18:34:18 »
Argh, why did I go to bed so early? I didn't read this, and so I forgot to ask. I might be able to get Japanese from Anne and a bunch of funny exotic languages from Johannes in Pragmatics tomorrow... Did anybody (Guy?) see HT today about the spectrograms? If not, I'll have to ask him tomorrow...

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Parties and Events / Re: Things needed for BBfest
« on: 2007-01-25 00:03:49 »
Das ist aber nicht vollständig... Hebräisch ist z.B. nicht dabei. Am besten morgen in allen Vorlesungen Zettel  mit Bitte um Auskunft rumgeben, da macht man auch gleich noch Werbung fürs BBFest... oder?

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Parties and Events / Re: Things needed for BBfest
« on: 2007-01-24 23:07:23 »
Ich weiß...!!! Das-ist-es-ja-gerade!!!  :-[ :-\ ::) So, nun aber genug der Niedlichkeit. Außerdem hast du damit angefangen *grrrrrrrrrrr*... Noch 'ne Ankündigung: Habe zwei Spektrogramme von HT erhalten, in A3, und weitere sollen folgen. Guy wollte sogar mit HT sprechen, ob man noch Sätze aufnehmen u. ausdrucken könne ("If you are too drunk to read this..." / "If these lines look straight to you - the bar is over there..." usw.). Weiß nicht, ob das noch zustande kommt; was sagt ihr dazu?

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Small talk / Re: Quotes: Java tutorials
« on: 2007-01-24 22:42:05 »
Das eigentlich Lustige war ja, dass wir uns minutenlang am Boden gekugelt haben (figuratively speaking), bevor Johannes gecheckt hat, dass wir lachen und warum wir lachen...  :D

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Parties and Events / Re: Things needed for BBfest
« on: 2007-01-24 22:23:45 »
Na dann...  :D

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Parties and Events / Re: Things needed for BBfest
« on: 2007-01-24 22:19:55 »
Quote from: Kilian on 2007-01-23 11:56:45
I don't have any, sorry. This (alas copyrighted) would be very nice for our room.
Can't we do anything about it? So that we get it working and it's legal? Who does it belong to?

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Parties and Events / Re: Things needed for BBfest
« on: 2007-01-24 22:15:42 »
Du musst das Pferd nicht öffentlich machen, sonst klaut es noch jemand!  >:( Oder noch schlimmer: Alle finden mich *niedlich*... *argh*...

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Parties and Events / Re: Things needed for BBfest
« on: 2007-01-23 23:56:06 »
I will bring a cute little green cashbox, a blue cooler and in it about 25 - 30 table lanterns to be completed by the tea lights Jon promised to bring. I made them from glasses for preserved fruit, wrapped around with white *Butterbrotpapier* - three types of lanterns, round, triangular and oval in shape. Armin, be prepared! ;)

PS: Look at the weather outside! Aleks, is it snowing on your desktop, too?

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Parties and Events / Re: Things needed for BBfest
« on: 2007-01-21 14:55:52 »
No, please, let me build some trees! If you want to, build a DRT, too. Is it okay if I write that Ede's tie is *declared* and *initialized* in a local DRS, and that's why you can't refer to it from outside?  ;)

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Parties and Events / Re: Things needed for BBfest
« on: 2007-01-20 11:59:25 »
Guy, are you trying to write poetry? Looks like it  ;) Let's take these lines, analyse them syntactically and make our decoration trees out of them! Question: TuBa-Dz-style or IntroGenLing style?

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Parties and Events / Re: Gästeliste, Tasks BBFest, Drinks
« on: 2007-01-20 11:57:19 »
Bring all the flags you can get!

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Small talk / Re: Quotes: Computational Linguistics I: Programming Course
« on: 2007-01-17 15:01:07 »
How do you possibly save one cat? ... That's very humane of you. (on the "Throwing cats off buildings"-task)

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Parties and Events / Re: Things needed for BBfest
« on: 2007-01-17 14:59:40 »
Right, I forgot those! I can also bring one - a very neat, green little box... ;-) Do we need more, then?

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Parties and Events / Things needed for BBfest
« on: 2007-01-17 12:51:30 »
- ice: 20 - 25 kg
- coolers: as many as possible, if you have one bring it
- refrigerators: at least one
- the 4 old monitors from the Verfügungsgebäude's basement
- flags of all the countries we have students from; if you own a flag, please lend it to us for decoration purposes
- shakers and other mixing devices; punch bowls?
- buckets and icepicks
- a person with a car to go shopping for all the stuff at Metro's this Saturday together with Guy
- volunteers for cutting lemons ;-)

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Parties and Events / Re: The Brecht-Bau-Hausfest...
« on: 2007-01-17 12:45:47 »
Well, of course I'm going to drink tap water, being such an avaricious person, but think of our guests!!! ;-)

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Parties and Events / Re: The Brecht-Bau-Hausfest...
« on: 2007-01-15 23:15:57 »
Hey, Aleks, think of the poor antialcoholics! And of the even more pitiable people who have to drive back home! We need at least a few drinks that are "safe" for these folks, and KiBa is a good start. Maybe one of you could think of something with grapes, but no alcohol in it? (please, do me a favour... ;-) As for the linguistics cocktail, good idea (and it means a lot if I'm supporting such a thing *g*). Go ahead and be creative!

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Parties and Events / Deck the halls with coathangers...
« on: 2007-01-15 23:10:14 »
I'll be glad to do something about the decoration - and maybe also the cleanup, as I'd be completely useless at the bar. I suggest we...

...get some flags from all the countries we've got students from, plus a map of the world, to decorate the walls and emphasize that we're *international* *yippieh* (well, okay, that's not too creative, but more stuff is following...)

... then, we could revive the syntactic tree or even open up a tree nursery (but put together a reasonable sentence this time, with some relation to partying) - and, in case we are allowed to have food in our room as long as we're not explicitly selling it, an edible parsing chart - a C Y Cake! ;-) (I'm dying to get this crazy idea of mine realized somewhere - do brownies as the chart fields and decorate with Russisch Brot...)

...if we have some old monitors and stuff, we can maybe get something done with them as well (ideas? - In case we get some and they still work - Aleks, could you devise a way to run some fancy graphics stuff on them, like the nice psychedelic patterns Anne once created? And pllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, do bring your beloved show-off genius@work computer, then you can put a different fancy pattern on each desktop and display them on the old monitors!!!)

Okay, enough creativity for today, still gotta finish my soup and do my Turkish homework. Greetings and please do add more suggestions!

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Parties and Events / Re: The Brecht-Bau-Hausfest...
« on: 2007-01-14 00:14:07 »
I would like to be on the helpers list, of course, but as the person who always orders mineral water without lemon, I'm not sure whether I'd be of any use at the bar... So this means I'm probably volunteering for the clean-up job...

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Small talk / Re: Quotes: Introduction to Generative Syntax
« on: 2007-01-10 10:52:19 »
In der Nachklausur stand etwas über einen "ambitiöseren Ansatz" (o.ä. ...).

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Small talk / Re: Quotes: Introduction to Generative Syntax
« on: 2007-01-08 23:53:57 »
"Fritz versucht getanzt zu werden" ist ganz schlecht. "Der Tango versucht getanzt zu werden" ist schon etwas besser...

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Small talk / Re: Quotes: Mixed
« on: 2006-12-19 16:10:16 »
Discussion of programming homework in the lab, after class:

Katya: "Last time I didn't, but this time I put in a comment to explain what I was doing so you won't be angry."
Chris: "So did I."
Dale: "Right. So you were aware that you were doing something naughty."

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Small talk / Re: Quotes: Mixed
« on: 2006-12-17 12:47:46 »
Sekretärin vom ersten Stock: "Ich erschlag diesen Hubert! Jetzt tut er schon gelbes Papier in den Kopierer!"
(H.T. hatte gelbe Preisverleihung-in-Heidelberg-Info-Plakate gedruckt)

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General topics / Re: BB Plenum 30.11.2006
« on: 2006-12-17 12:42:30 »
I told you so...  ::)

Quote from: aleks on 2006-12-06 13:51:15
What a pity. So how about making cocktails or stuff like that?

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Parties and Events / Christmas party
« on: 2006-12-12 22:51:29 »
I *could* make some cute little parcels if I happen to have the time... in-between the preparations for the Java exam and a very probable Syntax test next Thursday... ;-(

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General topics / Fachschaft meeting 2006-12-14
« on: 2006-12-12 22:48:15 »
I suppose it's my turn to volunteer for going to the BB-Plenum. So could one of you meet me and tell me what relevant things you might have discussed at the meeting in-between the two 'events'?

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Parties and Events / An idea...
« on: 2006-12-12 18:33:18 »
Let's have a syntactic Christmas tree made of coathangers decorated with pine branches, the usual decoration and some little parcels containing either nothing or quotations! ;-)

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Small talk / Re: Quotes: Mathematics for Linguists
« on: 2006-12-12 18:22:02 »
Wasn't it:

Quote


Let's have a short proof of about ten minutes.


? ;)

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General Linguistics / Sam and the Coathangers
« on: 2006-12-11 15:59:59 »
Quote from: "aleks"

We should count how often he uses the word "trivial" per lesson... I got the feeling it were about 50 times this time...


Same for Prof. von Stechow! :)

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General topics / Fachschaft meeting 2006-12-14
« on: 2006-12-11 15:57:06 »
Quote from: "aleks"

8pm yes, if somebody agrees to carry my to the room and bind me onto a chair so I don't fall over...


Aleks, PLEASE, do get some SLEEP!!!  :(

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