User:Kaleissin

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no Denne brukeren/brukaren har norsk som morsmål. nn-3 Denne brukaren meistrar norsk (nynorsk) flytande. en-3 This user is able to contribute with an advanced level of English. sv-2 Denna användare har kunskaper på mellannivå i svenska. da-2 Denne brugers kendskab til dansk er på mellemniveau. de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français. la-0 Hic usor Latine non intellegat aut id intellegat aegre. tlh-0 tlhIngan Hol jatlhbe' lo'wI'vam qoj 'oH jatlhqangbe' ghaH. ... This user would like to be able to speak more languages. con lang This user likes constructed languages.
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I am an old-school grouch who spends too much time reading and too little time in the big blue room.

Interests

• all things language and linguistics
  • descriptive linguistics, that is: typology and universals
  • computational linguistics including corpus linguistics and machine translation
  • conlanging
  • Making machine-readable linguistic resources like grammars and dictionaries for languages that lack them
  • Would like to know the following languages better:
    • Euskara (Basque)
    • tlhIngan (Klingon)
    • Latin
    • Turkish
  • Would like to be properly fluent in:
    • German
    • French
• computers, computing, programming and all that jazz (but not consoles) but especially
  • Python, because it has become my native programming language
  • computational linguistics
  • Using sets instead of trees in categorization/ontologies (trees suck to describe natural phenomena!)
  • Freenixes like Linux (currently running Ubuntu) and *BSD's (currently running FreeBSD, looking into DragonflyBSD)
  • Computer games:
    • First person sneakers like the Thief series and all things Looking Glass Studios
    • Simulators like the Civilization-series and things like Starcraft, though not so much Sim City
    • MMORPGs without leveling but based on cooperation and communication like Untìl Uru
    • Adventure games like The Longest Journey, Myst, but also text adventures, the Sierra adventure series and the Lucasarts adventure games
• general world building, including conlanging
• drinkable stuff
  • tea, also iced tea
  • various carbonated beverages, especially schorle and pepsi max
  • hot and cold concoctions based on cocoa
  • beer (especially wheat and trappiste)
  • cider (English and French) and apfelwein (from Frankfurt)
  • calvados (the cider's answer to cognac)
  • rum (especially dark and Cuban) and its associated drinks
  • white wine (especially riesling from Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, Nähe and Alsace, kabinett or better)
• eatable stuff, especially if not in the IMHO much overused and boring French/Italien international nice restaurant style
  • Pork is quite simply the meat of the gods
  • Bulgur is the clearly the best carbohydrate-source
  • I try to eat at least one dish of blasfemic food a week. Liberate your tastebuds!

	This user drinks beer.

Edits when not logged in

(So easy to do, especially when the #%$ login times out!)

• Diff of Adjective by 80.203.114.22.

Useful links

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Pages I've started (some even in a proper manner)

• Bernard Comrie
• Kaiserschmarrn - yummmm
• Ladislav Zgusta
• Murray B Emeneau and countless redirects
• Schleicher's fable, which seems to be the most popular of my additions
• Schorle
• Tsolyáni
• William Croft (linguist)
• Winfred P. Lehmann
• Balaibalan

Subpages

• Sandbox - just what it sounds like
• Blasfemic food - unless it becomes a trend (fat chance) this stays right where it is
• Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics - under construction
• User:Kaleissin/Couronne - under construction
• User:Kaleissin/Aleppo soap - under construction

To keep an eye on

• List of conlang-related articles
• Potential vandal: 66.216.172.77