From earlier this afternoon:
Julia Hirschberg: “Linguistics example sentences are invariably about murder or sex.”
It’s the first day of classes, and Bwog wants to know some of the ridiculous things professors have said to commence the school year. Email bwgossip@columbia.edu if you hear anything good.
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@tipster “George Bush doesn’t care about black people”
-Ken Jackson, History of the City of New York
@hubris Natural Language Processing (W4705). Not too late to register…
@ZvS Agreed, this class is going to rule. (Although, for clarity, that’s where the “murder and sex” comment came from, not the “asses” comment.)
@class *professor walks to front of hall. class becomes silent.*
“your asses are mine.”
@oh hell no no way! what class is this??