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[edit] Tö cos'è?
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This user surprisingly has an appreciation society, who intend to impose Icelandic as the official language of Wikipedia. Well, not really, although that would be cool. |
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This user started and is in the middle of the Beck Project, an attempt to provide descriptions of every Beck single, as well as specifically important non-singles. It's a labour of love. |
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This user is an active feminist and is disgusted by the institutional bigotry against women evident around the world. |
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This user detests all varieties of SAMPA. |
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This user would prefer a world without borders separating its people, but until then, supports the right for any people to govern themselves. |
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This user believes that Christian fundamentalists should read the New Testament once in a while. |
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This user supports the New Democratic Party |
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This user's favourite colour is pink. |
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This user's favourite subject is Latin.
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This user dislikes
narrow-minded behaviour. |
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This user follows his/her own political ideals. |
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This user is more than happy to retain their "personality disorder(s)" and delights in telling their mental health professional to screw off. |
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This user frequently experiences déjà vu. |
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This user is a 'Bretagnophile'. |
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According to the Political Compass this user is:
Economic Left (-9.67) and
Social Libertarian (-8.35) |
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This user enjoys blues music. |
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At this moment, God is crying. For the world. Whoever he, she or it is. |
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This user catches mormons for a living. |
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This user observes the dietary laws of Kashrut. |
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This user enjoys reading poetry. |
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This user says snuck. |
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This user is obsessed with Seinfeld .. not that there's anything wrong with that! |
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This user is a professional citternist. |
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This user is a huge fan of small films. |
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There's an old joke... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life — full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness — and it's all over much too quickly - Woody Allen.
Hi, I'm [ˈɑndʀiɛt ˈpsɑʀiʃ] (which I'm adding mostly out of intrigue for those boxes,) an obscure playwright, experimental musician, and traveller living near Birmingham, in England, although I have spent quite a lot of time on the road, in a range of other places. I have been contributing to, and have been enjoying the quality of, Wikipedia for the last few years, as a string of IPers, including Special:Contributions/82.37.242.71 and many others. I did not, until May '05, think of registering.
I have submitted quite a few articles over time, on all sorts of areas, from personal passions (articles on politics, Beck, Daria) to things that I knew nothing of until I translated them/looked into them to fill a hole in the wiki. Over here I also correct a lot of failures of grammar, down-and-out ones, rather than stylistic ones; I think that it is a shame when people do not know their own language. I do a lot of copyediting, some of which worsens my mental health, and I also do a lot of translations - ones that have been requested, if I can get my mitts on them first, and ones that have not but that I consider worthy when browsing another language Wikipedia. I also do a bunch of mundane but slightly fulfilling and definitely essential tasks, such as changing it's to its when a possessive is intended; changing 'Brazillian' to 'Brazilian'; 'from whence' to whence; foriegn to foreign; and finding images to every magazine in Category:Women's Magazines where available, and adding to them where appropriate. I always look out for vandalism to stamp out inanity and hatred.
I love to spend hours cruising Wikipedia for new things. I never knew, until WP, for instance, that there used to be a country in between Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany: Moresnet, which could have become the first Esperanto state. (Amazing!) It's amazing what one can find by randomly clicking. My passions in life are never waking up in the same country three days in a row, poetry, knowledge and languages; I totally agree with the old Spanish saying that to speak another language is to have another soul. As well as being a native speaker of English, I was a very odd child, (not much changes), and at the age of 4 or 5, I compelled my elderly grandfather to teach Old English to me (which I have put some use to make the Anglo-Saxon main page), which I have spoken for nearly twenty years now But, as they used to say before the Normans came, se ðe gelíþ raðe hé hamacgaþ. I have learnt many more languages over the years, whenever I got the possibility in fact. I am currently looking to learn a Central Asian language, such as Tajik, as I'm considering moving there. After that, the next language that I wish to learn is either Burmese, Estonian, or one of the native Mexican languages; these fascinate me.
[edit] are you serious with the it's thing?
I guess so: I confess to have once gone around town with a gaggle of people tip-exxing out false apostrophes. Well, it's a simple rule to distinguish 'its' and 'it's', and one that seems to be taught to no one. I think that most of you know it, though, here at Wikipedia, but I will explain (to add to my posterity :S.) Its is always the possessive case which is an equivalent to your or Michael/'s/. It's is the bastardised version of 'it is', whose point I can see, although it complicates things for many people. (I cannot, however, see the point of couldn't, didn't and the like, which do not lessen the number of syllables and sound rather... lisping.) Now, many people mess the distinction up, because they are used to thinking that that if it belongs to someone then it must be 's. No. When it is a genitive pronoun (which relates to a specific person or thing), there is Never an 's. There is no 's on my or your or theirs; why should there be one with its?
[edit] Non-linguistic philosophy
- Which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. - Hillel
- A carnation is only as good as its petals - Làà
- I want to defy the logic of all sex laws - Beck
- Man hands on misery to man - Philip Larkin
- Mensch muß noch Chaos in sich haben, um tanzende Sterne gebären zu können. - Nietzsche
Although I am rather influenced morality-wise by my liberal Jewish roots, my philosophy to life is rather Nietzschean and existentialist, above all else. Although roots and identity are important, I feel that there is a danger in identifying oneself mainly as a cog in a group. If what you are is a label, then you will live life according to someone else's rules, other than yours. Life, to me, is too short to be spent in an office, paying mortgages, slogging through shops, living in the backwash town in which they were born. It amazes me how many people will be nothing in life but non-notable drones, contributing nothing but tax money to the greater consciousness.
I'm not a fan of capitalism, because it forces one to sell the best commodity anyone can get, free will, for a few pieces of paper and an office. If I had my way, everyone would take the opportunity to continuously explore this kaleidoscope of a world, without the yoke of money limiting this. The saddest thing to do is to give up your dreams due to possibility, I think.
We are all brought up, barraged with descriptions and norms, and, being as we humans are pack animals, we all fear lack of acceptance, and this ties down our free will. What is more: in the past, those who deviated from mental slavery were called heretics, or witches. To-day, they are similarly demeaned, given a startling array of psychological labels, and pills to make them 'normal.' Fermanagh Steve, when he and I spoke up in Liverpool in a queer old house, said that 'genius does not often come without "madness,"' and I tend to agree with him. Perfect sanity in psychology is 'fitting in[to]' a monochrome world, settling down, culling mad dreams. That, to me, is the anathæma to sanity. Add up the number of hours, days, years, that you have spent doing things that you did not want to do, and it's frightening to see how difficult it is to do what you yourself want.
To me, the only things that are truly 'evil' are the imposition of one person's will over another without a considerable obligation to do so (i.e. to stop them from imposing on a third person's will in an objectively more severe manner.) I am vehemently opposed to censorship, since there should be no bars on knowledge. However, I am strongly opposed to pornography, not only on feminist grounds, but also because I find that it is not a victimless indulgence; it contributes to a society based upon self-satisfaction; and a pornographised society unfortunately makes many either be sexual playthings, or face solitude.
One of the most damaging traits in man is the willingness to let what one has heard be one's rationale, rather than experiencing and judging for oneself. This is exasperated in this age of pundits and experts. I remember that my grandmother used to think that nowhere but Birmingham and her home town in Ireland were safe, because she was constantly barraged by a news-media all too eager to poke their fingers into corpses. When London was bombed, a young (now former) acquaintance of mine was rather histrionic, saying that xe felt unsafe to go out. I replied that if terrorism results in paranoia and mistrust of one's fellow people, it has succeeded. Aside from the application of common sense, no prejudgement should ever be the replacement of experience and personal discovery.
[edit] Interests and activities
Activities:
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- ♦ Conquering Poland
- ♦ Becoming a Crack-whore in Basingstoke
- ♦ Pwning arrogant people at poker
- ♦ Persuading Business Studies students that I am Joan of Arc
- ♦ Provoking uprisings in Luxembourg.
- ♦ Defending the Spork.
- ♦ Waking up somewhere new every day.
- ♦ Speaking Gaelic with Geriatrics.
- ♦ Hitchhiking in Siberia.
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- ♦ Latin American Politics.
- ♦ Luis Cernuda.
- ♦ Revolutions.
- ♦ Danish cinema
- ♦ Poetry of the 1960s (specifically Sylvia Plath.)
- ♦ Feminism.
- ♦ Zaïre and Central Africa as a whole.
- ♦ The Tajik Language.
- ♦ The Unknown.
- ♦ Abnormal Psychology. (Comes in handy for self-analysis!)
[edit] Recent contributions or large changes
I've written on a bunch of weird things, mostly demanded articles. I'm trying to fill in the gaps of our 'Human Rights' collection of articles, too. None of these are anywhere close to being magna opera, but they're some contribution, at least. The ones in bold are the fullest, and the most recent ones are at the top.
- 1947-48 Palestinian Civil War
- Cafe Disaffecto
- Miossec
- Adélaïde Dufrénoy
- Anglo-Saxon Commons
- The Invitation
- Pénjamo
- Martians, Go Home
- Pavement Template
- Ambrós
- Bojan
- Génération Écologie
- Bodger and Badger (major wikification, copywriting, etc)
- Debra
- Loser,
- It's All In Your Mind,
- French Guiana Creole
- Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals (from Italian)
- San Antonio de Palé (from Spanish)
- Human Rights in Bangladesh
- Léon Bertrand (from French)
- Bhekimpi Dlamini
- ShamRain
- Luc Etienne Périn
- Bergur Sigurbjörnsson
- Ani DiFranco template
- Either/Or,
- M96 motorway,
- No. 3 Squadron, IAF
- Tramways in Grenoble
- Ami Suzuki (intense copyediting)
- Qusai ibn Kilab,
- Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition
- J.C. Ismael (from Portuguese),
- Girlfriends (magazine)
- Divanee Magazine
- RIHPHC
- E. Balanandan,
- Yardley,
- Birmingham Yardley,
- David Davis
- Chelmsley Wood
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I also do a lot of removing "it's" where "its" should be, and vice versa. For this, I was really kindly rewarded the minor barnstar.
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The Minor Barnstar |
| A Barnstar for doing minor edits of excellent quality, helping the Wikipedia community understand that It's-is-not-a-genitive. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 13:57, 1 June 2006 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Good Humor |
| For coming up with the best username ever. Thanks, you made my day. Melsaran (formerly Salaskаn) 18:21, 3 August 2007 (UTC) |
Where I have attempted
putsche (as of 11/06). Because I'm liable to wake up and say 'I'm building a yacht out of
MDF and going to
São Tomé, by hook or crook,' don't take the blue as a definitive list.
I've visited these places many times, or lived in them.) I have visited or lived in these places once.) I have almost unavoidable plans of visiting or living in these places within the next 18 months.) I have never visited or lived in these places, although I would like to.
[edit] A treasury of links that I found interesting, but you probably will not
[edit] My view on copyright.
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