User:OCTopus-en

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This user is a translator from German to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

Dieser Benutzer spricht Deutsch als Muttersprache.

This user can contribute with a near-native level of English.

This user is a citizen of Germany.

This user is a retired Sergeant Major in the German Air Force.

This user is against any form of anti-americanism

Hello my fellow Wikipedians - I'm OCTopus. Let me introduce me to you:[edit]

A registered Wikipedia user since November 2007, my main fields of interest are technical, historical and political issues. I do most of my Wikiwork improving content, syntax and grammar in German and English WP articles as well as translating articles into the opposite languages. I also upload my images to WikiCommons (please see my Terms of Use and License). My usernames are OCTopus (same on German WP - or use the link "Deutsch" on the left hand side of the screen) and OCTopus-en (Englisch WP) although, since September 2008, I use my global username OCTopus.

Art is a matter of taste. Some artists want to make us believe that their “art” is valuable whereas it just is something to impress his/her/their peers, friends and clients, sometimes being just what it really is: some big piece of crap!

Several tours of duty in the USA, more precise, to Fort Bliss, Texas, have gotten me so far into the English language that today I am able to communicate and translate text between German and English at a near native level. To me a sure sign of being fully able to communicate in a foreign language is when someone asleep dreams in the foreign language.

As can be seen from the row of flag symbols further down the page I like to travel.

There's a saying: Reading promotes education. Right! Give me english or german literature!

Computers: partly leisure, partly aid, mostly tool. I don't like it, though, to be the victim of horseplay by operating systems or programs - I am not Mr. Know All, I'm just a user.

(American) Football is the single most interesting sport to me - man against man, tactics, strategy - almost like chess. Rather difficult to understand for newbies - but does everything have to be as simple as soccer???

Cycling keeps me in shape - to me, there is no better training for the cardio-vascular system.

During the snow period in Hesse (rare enough!) I like to do Nordic Skiing in the woods and trails of the Upland around Willingen. The Erzgebirge in Saxony , the Rennsteig in Thuringia or the Harz Mountains in Lower Saxony are good places if Hesse remains green in winter.

Born and raised in Munich, married (one son, age 19), retired after serving 33 years in the German Air Force, residing in Bad Arolsen (Hesse, Germany)