At a Star Trek convention, there may be conversations in bizarre unnatural languages, but at least someone's selling a Klingon dictionary. Mega-conference SXSW Interactive has its own confusing dialect, as shown in these overheard snippets.

In IRC backchannel #sxsw: "I need to look at code, for Christ's sake. I've gone a whole day without it."

In a panel on Ubiquitous computing: "Just wait until your toilet crashes."

Sitting in the hallway: "I'm blogging about how I tried to post last night."

In #sxsw again: "Maybe I've just spent too much time in panels, but I think I may be bored of the Internet."

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