User:Charles01

Wikipedia:Babel

Today is 6 March 2012.

en-4 This user is able to contribute with a near-native level of English.

Mix This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently.

de-2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.

fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

it-1 Questo utente può contribuire con un livello semplice di italiano.

nl-1 Deze gebruiker bezit beginnende kennis van het Nederlands.

la-0 Hic usor Latine non intellegat aut id intellegat aegre.

This user knows that 42 is the answer to the Ultimate Question of life, the Universe, and everything.

This user supports the English cricket team.

E This user reads The Economist.

This user supports the European Union

This user wants Zug to adopt the euro.

This user drinks coffee.

This user has eaten Vegemite and is thankfully still alive.

Secondhand smoke is one of this user's pet peeves.

C2H5OH-1 This user drinks relatively infrequently. He or she is probably the better for it.

This user assumes good faith.

This user believes that deletion should only be used for redundancies and vandalism.

This user is a Cantabrigian.

This user has visited 14 of the 50 United States. 14

This user is a member of WikiProject Germany.

This user is a member of WikiProject France.

This user is currently working on a translation of de:Deidesheim.

This user is a member of WikiProject Automobiles.

This user is a member of WikiProject Highways.

This user is currently working on a translation of Strada Europea E62.

This user loves pasta.

This user knows that bears are Godless killing machines.

This user misses Pluto. May its planethood rest in peace.

Diese(r) Benutzer/in fände es toll, einen Dinosaurier als Haustier zu haben.

This user was up all night finding userboxes and now needs to sleep

Mother Tongue

• British English

Formal Education

• UK History Degree: MA Hons (Cantab) acquired in return for a BA Hons (Cantab) and a modest fee
• UK Accountancy qualification (ACA).

Informal Education

• Going Places
• Listening (the tough one)

Interests

• Much of what I can understand and some of what I can't and/or don't and/or won't
• Historical Context and Perspectives
• Places
• Languages
• Cars
• Food
• Ancestors

Wiki Strengths / Wiki Weaknesses

• Interest in Knowlege
• Caution about opinions (especially those I don't share)
• Caution about unconsidered base assumptions acquired while growing up (or not: especially other folks')
• Pedantic
• Tolerant (or?...)
• Still bad at succinct (but still working on it)
• Excessive weakness for ill considered aphorisms (evidenced by the irritating little boxes to the right)
• Parentheses (brackets)

Drug Dependencies

• Coffee
• Threat of various incipient wiki related conditions