User:Trigaranus

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Hello everybody, this is Phil, probably known to some of you with whose articles I have meddled as Trigaranus. I've taken my username from the Tarvos Trigaranus on the Pillar of the Boatmen, as Celtic philology and culture are quite up my alley.

My academic specialties are ancient and medieval history and linguistics, but I do have the sad tendency of interferring with articles in other fields as well. I would therefore like to invite you to make use of this page here if you feel the need to tell me off for it.

And, bugger me, I've always wanted to have some lovely old userboxes on my profile, so that everyone who does not care may gaze at them in awe.


Glotto- and Bibliophilia
This user is not British, but can speak with a British accent.
This user drinks tea.
This user employs a more formal style of writing in articles than in talk pages.
whomThis user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees.
…in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with.
its
it's
It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.
man-
kind
Regarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular, not what is politically correct.
Subj This user prefers that the subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it.
ERGThis user (ERG) would use the Ergative case (ABS), were there such a case in English.
This user is sadly aware that other users are much abler linguists than he is.
fowl
=
Vogel
This user suffers from a particularly smug variety of etymological logorrhea.
This user believes that fuck is the most versatile word in the English language.
gobbledi-
gook
This user likes the word gobb-
ledigook
, and wants to use it more often in conversation.
This user believes that a decent proemium is half the battle.MHNIN AEIΔE ΘΕΑ
wopjands in auþidaiThis user has apparently misplaced his Gothic grammar book.
This user likes Middle High German.
TáinThis user likes to bury himself in the Táin Bó Cúailnge.
BerchánThis user has read the Prophecy of Berchán.
Gwŷr a aeth OdoddinThis user loves the Gododdin.
Hljóðs bið ek allarSadly enough, this user prefers the Poetic Edda to T.S. Eliot.
This is the kind of user who would gladly devour the Njáls saga.
This user wouldn't invite Egill Skallagrímsson to his party.
This user has been There and Back Again.
Specialties
This user is interested in linguistics.
This user is interested in history.
New South Wales is a land of mystery... probably.This user knows nothing about New South Wales.
This user is interested in
Human Prehistory
This user is interested in indigenous Shamanistic religions.
This user is interested in the ancient Celts.
This user is interested in Ancient Greece.
This user is interested in ancient Rome.
This user is interested in Late Antiquity.
This user is interested in the Byzantine Empire.
This user is interested in the Early Middle Ages.
This user is interested in Rurikid Russia.
This user is interested in the
Middle Ages.
This user is interested in the history of the Holy Roman Empire.
This user is interested in Central European history.
This user is interested in the History of France.
This user once wanted to be like Joan of Arc but then read how the story ended.


This user is interested in Irish history
This user is interested in Welsh History.
This user is interested in Scottish History
This user is interested in Japanese history.
Wikiwork
This user has made over
1,500 edits to Wikipedia.
IP addressThis user supports mandatory registration.
This user thinks that Wikipedia is the best thing since sliced bread. ±
DGAFThis user can't be arsed, and hopes some day you will join them.
This user believes that common sense trumps all other arguments.
This user is a WikiOgre.
This user applies tit for tat strategy.
The digit "3" in the International Code of Signals
This user believes that process is important on Wikipedia and is opposed to its circumvention.
1RRThis user prefers discussing changes on the talk page rather than engaging in an edit war.
This user hates that his keyboard doesn't include the | key.

Penchants

This user likes foggy days.
This user loves the Autumn.
This user loves knowledge.
This user is a bibliophile.
This user loves to read.
This user loves to write.
This user spends most of his free time thinking.

12
This user has visited 12 of the 208 countries in the world.
This user enjoys music by Henry Purcell.
This user listens to Current 93.Moonlight, You Will Say
This user would wear Stechzeug for work if only it were considered casual.
This user wears a Thor's Hammer for purely aesthetic reasons but still finds neo-pagans a fun bunch.
This user has become tragically addicted to creating userboxes.
This user likes to be done before zee Germans get here.
Bowling.jpgThis user abides.
This user enjoys White Russians. (So does the Dude.)
This user has a fever. And the only prescription is more cowbell!
This user's Patronus is a ground sloth.
This user is Fatmouse!
or they're a follower...
This user believes 42 cookies is the answer to life.
COKE
zero sugar
This user drinks COKE Zero Sugar religiously.
This user enjoys kayaking.

Creed

This user is a skeptic.
ἄθεοςThis user is an atheist.
This user starts his day with an offering of frankincense to Epicurus.
Until proven wrong, this user does not believe in the supernatural.
This user feels that most of "life after death" bears an intriguing resemblance to compost.
This user would argue that, quite clearly, God cannot be both benevolent and omnipotent.
Thanks and all that, but this user sure as hell never asked anyone to die for his sins.
This user has been an ex-catholic for quite a few years now, much like former pope John-Paul II.
This user would be perfectly fine with humanity if it weren't for all those people.
This user is interested in religion as an anthropological and historical phenomenon.
This user is convinced that the Phaistos disc is in fact a recipe for a pizza-like chicken dish.
This user strongly believes that Phoenicians carved PIA into a rock at Turkey Mountain.
This user is a devout believer in the IPU
This user understands biological evolution.
This user supports the development of realistic renewable energy.
This user thinks we should tax pollution.
This user is car-free.
This user supports public transit.
For purely aesthetic reasons, this user would like his country to be a constitutional monarchy.
This user believes in the separation of religion and state.*
This user likes Swiss direct democracy.
This user believes in a non-partisan, direct democracy.
According to the political compass this user is Economic Left (-7.38) and Social Libertarian (-3.69).
This user is a social democrat.
This user doesn't like Nazis.
This user deeply and utterly loathes people who deny the Holocaust.
no funThis user would argue that, despite its name, there is hardly any "fun" at all in fundamentalism...!
This user feels that letting oneself be struck with terror by terrorists means actually doing most of their job for them.
This user thinks pro-life should also extend to certain kinds of food.
This user strongly believes pigs die for a cause.
This user used to be a vegetarian.
InfallibleThis user can do no wrong, especially when it comes to editing Wikipedia.
rant It is more cathartic to curse the darkness than to light one stupid candle.