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User:Babbage

I have been here since 2003, but I cultivate beginner’s mind.

I have a terrible habit of using curly quotes, it’s a character flaw.

Current Project

All things Julius Platzmann

here's my scratch file on him:

User:Babbage/Julius_Platzman


And one on dom Pedro II’s tutor,

User:Babbage/Karl_Henning


User:Babbage/Bibliography of lenguas generales

TODOs

To translate

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Barbas_do_Imperador

To Translate

Bios of linguists

User:Babbage/Bios of linguists

Native American linguists


Graphics and maps


The other problem there is that building out the phonology charts is a HUGE PAIN IN THE NECK. I have no idea how people can stand to produce those things without some sort of tool. I guess people start with existing charts & edit those, but there has _got_ to be a better way.

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Native_languages_of_California

translations i did

From Portuguese

From Spanish

From French

stuff i started

I keep this list so I can occasionally see if someone has made an improvement to an article I started.

articles of which i am fond to an utterly absurd degree

categories i started

Category:Earliest_known_manuscripts_by_language

Category:Writing systems without word boundaries

language stuff

languagey people on Wikipedia

For my future perusal...

· User:Taivo · User:Mark Dingemanse · User:Kwamikagami · User:CJLL Wright · User:Ish ishwar · User:Miskwito ·

notes to self

hello, self

Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia Help:User_style

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babbage/monobook.css

my bookshelf

The new Pediapress book functionality is really fun. Here's my bookshelf

critical trivia

The first edit I made was adding an and. ☺

This user is a Buddhist.


old stuff

Lysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 — May 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphleteer, political philosopher, and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist tradition. He is known for establishing the American Letter Mail Company, which competed with the United States Postal Service. This undated photograph of Spooner was taken by Amory Nelson Hardy.Photograph credit: Amory Nelson Hardy; restored by Adam Cuerden