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My name is Allan Stewart, of Charlottetown, PEI, Canada. I am currently attending (July 2008) Graduate School at the University of Victoria in High Energy Physics, and have a B Sc in Physics and Math from the University of Prince Edward Island. I have worked in the fields of Positron Lifetime Spectroscopy and High Energy Particle Physics, specifically work on ATLAS, through the Canadian ATLAS collaboration.
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This user's been known to screw up the occasional sentence and make the occasional typo, but is otherwise pretty accurate with regards to English. |
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This user understands leet, IM & texting slang, but won't use it. "411 ur LOL pwn ROFLMAO OMG b310ng 2" you, thanks. |
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I speak English as a first language, and have extensive education in French. To decreasing degrees I have some familiarity and great interest in: Japanese, Italian, Spanish, German, and Mandarin. I am also very interested in linguistics, and have some small amount of formal training in that regard.
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This user prefers that the subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it. |
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This user participates in math competitions. |
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This user would want to know what a black hole looks like from inside, but doesn't want to discover it by themselves. |
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This user accepts Evolution as a biological fact. |
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This user wants to own one or more cats. |
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This user uses Wiktionary as their primary dictionary. |
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This editor thinks Wikipedia should readily allow copyrighted images and supports fair use. We should teach and not let copyright stop learning. |
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