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en
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simplici
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conferre potest.
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γνῶσιν τῆς
ἀρχαίας ἑλληνικῆς
ἔχει.
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is
Latin
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intermediate
understanding of the
Greek script
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basic
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Hebrew script
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Cyrillic script
/ʑ/
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wiki templates
, and can understand most code written by others.
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little
about
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and just mimics existing usage.
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about
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and just mimics existing usage.
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UTC-8
and observes Daylight Saving Time.
I'm an
admin
bureaucrat
, and
checkuser
here. I see my role as helping out with administrative tasks and moderating disputes so the real experts can concentrate on improving the dictionary.
I received an undergraduate degree in Linguistics from UCLA many years ago. My main focus was
historical linguistics
I'm also interested in plants and animals and their relation to culture (
ethnobiology
ethnozoology
and
ethnobotany
— but not in the sense employed by drug users). At one time I was considering becoming a botanist, so I have some training in that field.
My special interest is plant and animal names and their history.
I've taken classes in:
American Indian Languages (we learned a little
Lakhota
in class). The languages I've studied on my own are mostly
Uto-Aztecan
Takic
and
Numic
predominantly)
Armenian
Chinese
Mandarin
French
German
Russian
Sanskrit
Spanish
Indo-European
linguistics. I only had the chance to take the first part, which was mostly phonology and sound changes, not the second, which would have covered comparative morphology and grammar
Classical
linguistics: mostly about how to derive etymologies of Greek and Latin words. A year of Latin or Greek was a prerequisite, but my self-taught competence in both was more than enough.
On my own I've concentrated on
Latin
, ancient
Greek
Hebrew
and
Old English
, but I've tried to learn enough in a great many languages to find words in dictionaries. I've also tried to teach myself most of the major writing systems, though there are quite a few in Africa, India and Southeast Asia that I have yet to study.
As far as historical linguistics, I'm basically familiar with the sound correspondences between most of the branches of the Indo-European language family, and have some knowledge of those in the
Semitic
branch of
Afro-Asiatic
, the
Polynesian
section of
Austronesian
and among the
Takic
and
Numic
sections of
Uto-Aztecan
In short, I'm not fluent or expert in any one language or subject, but I see lots of connections others might miss.
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