User:Szfski

About Me

My Languages

This user is a linguist.

kt-N	Cōluq na meqakkiŝtōn ħakarūl megaláisi daggĕ tauŝ Kaŝteskomen luqsodenter.

en-5This user can contribute with a professional level of English.

fr-3Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.

ru-3Этот участник свободно владеет русским языком.

la-3Hic usor callidissima latinitate contribuere potest.

ar-3

هذا المستخدم يستطيع المساهمة بالعربية بمستوى متقدم.

yi-3דער באַניצער איז אין ייִדיש זייער באַהאַוונט.

es-3Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español.

lzh-3此士工於文言。

lzh-3此君工於中古漢語也
Tsiɛ̌ giuən gungio djiunggǒ xɑ̀nngiǔ iǎ
This user has a good knowledge of Middle Chinese

de-3Dieser Benutzer hat sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse.

eo-3Ĉi tiu uzanto povas komuniki per alta aŭ flua nivelo de Esperanto.

ang-3Þes brūcere cann forðian mid forþweardre mǣðe Englisces.

es-3Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español.

he-3

משתמש זה יכול לתרום ברמה מתקדמת של עברית.‏

rom-2Kado jeno vakyarel e Romani chib opretele.

it-2Quest'utente può contribuire con un livello intermedio di italiano.

fa-2دانش فارسی این کاربر در سطح متوسط است.

pie-2

So bhrug.énts méd.i̯om dń̩gu̯eʕ̯m Prʔ̩.mó-Sindhú-Eurōpʕ̩́i̯eʕ̯m u̯ói̯dʕ̯e

cu-2Сь польѕевател҄ь глаголѥтъ словѣньскы трьпимо.

nov-2Dis usere pove komunika per medi nivele de novial.

ro-2Acest utilizator poate contribui în română la un nivel intermediar.

ase-2This user can communicate at an intermediate level in American Sign Language.

gl-2Este usuario pode contribuír cun nivel intermedio de galego.

cy-2Fe all y defnyddiwr 'ma gyfrannu ar lefel ganolradd y Gymraeg.

ca-2Aquest usuari pot contribuir amb un nivell mitjà de català.

nl-2Deze gebruiker heeft een middelmatige kennis van het Nederlands.

enm-2Muchel knoweth this segge of Englissh.

grc-2Ὅδε ὁ χρήστης δύναται συμβάλλεσθαι μετρίᾳ γνώσει τῆς ἀρχαίας ἑλληνικῆς.

ke-2Ὁ χρήστης οὗτος δύναται συνεισφέρειν μετὰ μέσης γνώσεως τῆς Κοινῆς Ἑλληνικῆς.

oc-2Aqueste utilizaire pòt contribuir amb un nivèl mejan d’occitan.

pl-2Ten użytkownik posługuje się językiem polskim na poziomie średnio zaawansowanym.

sjn-2I iuithron hen gâr ist vaer o lam Edhellen.

qya-2Yuhtaro sina ista mára Quenya.

non-2Þessum njót er stirt norrœnt mál.

cmn-2該用戶能以一般的官話進行交流。
该用户能以一般的官话进行交流。

mnl-1Deze gebruiker bezit elementaire kennis van het Middelnederlands.

lb-1Dëse Benotzer ka mat Grondkenntnisser vun der Lëtzebuerger Sprooch zum Projet bäidroen.

rue-1Йсі Вікипедянты вмівут уживати русинськый язык на базовом ро̂вні.

scn-1St'utenti pò cuntribbuiricci c'un sicilianu ôn liveddu sìmprici.

tmr-1היא מיתהנאה משתעי בארמאה דתלמודא בבלאה בדרגא נחותא.

co-1Stu utilizatore cuntribuisce cu un' livellu bàsicu di corsu.

fro-1Icest faitre poet assister a un nivel bas de la langue francor.

rm-1Quest utilisader pos contribuir cun in nivel elementar da rumantsch.

sh-1Ovaj korisnik posjeduje osnovno znanje srpskohrvatskog jezika.
Овај корисник поседује основно знање српскохрватског језика.

nv-1Díí choyoołʼįįhí Diné Bizaad t'áá áłts'íísígo bił bééhózin.

akk-1Annu awilu damqu epasu esu pilku ina Akkaditum.

ipa-4
əThis user has a near-complete understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.

fgn-4This user speaks several dialects of foreign at a near native level.

Brai-4
⠿This user has a near-complete understanding of the Braille.

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This user is a translator and proofreader from French to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

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This user is a translator and proofreader from Arabic to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

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This user is a translator and proofreader from Russian to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

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

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

This user is a participant in WikiProject Languages.

…in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with.

to¦goThis user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.

theyThis user considers singular they standard English usage.

English Singulars: "The data is..."

This user recognizes that "data", "media", and "agenda" have become incorporated into English as singular nouns.

خطهذا المستخدم يعشق الخط العربي.
This user loves Arabic calligraphy.

اي الكلام ده؟اليوزر ده بيأيد إستعمال اللغات العامية في الكتابة.
This user supports the use of colloquial Arabic in writing.

قل يا ايها المتحذلقونهذا المستخدم يعتبر الفصحى لغة صناعية.
This user considers Modern Standard Arabic to be a constructed language.

بتعرف ايش؟هذا المستخدم يستقبح استقباح العامية.
This user is revolted by those who denigrate colloquial Arabic.

أ ≠ ا

هذا المستخدم يهتم بوضع الهمزة على الألف.

VMSThis user is intrigued by the Voynich Manuscript and hopes to decipher it some day.

Welcome to my user page. I am SZFSki the language maniac.

My areas of interest include Indo-European studies, Semitic linguistics, Slavic Languages, Pushkin, Historical Chinese Phonology, Literature of the Tang and Song dynasties, sociolinguistics, philosophy of translation, Catalan literature, Esperanto literature, medieval Persian literature and Middle Eastern literature.

On Wikipedia I mainly work on articles dealing with the literature of the pre-modern (i.e. 632–1918) Islamic world, since it has come to my attention that these articles are of undeservedly poor quality. I also contribute to articles dealing with Near Eastern and Far Eastern linguistic phenomena, including Middle Chinese, Palestinian Arabic, Andalusian Arabic, Persian phonology and the Egyptian language. The Canaanite Shift is largely my creation.

I've made it a habit to monitor language articles which are a source of popular attention such as Latin spelling and pronunciation and Ancient Greek phonology so as to make sure they don't get too deformed.

I've also started expanding the info on dialects of Chinese (to reflect linguistic, rather than geocultural divisions) and historical chinese phonology (to reflect scholarship of the late 20th century rather than relying on the older work of folk like Karlgren.)

Willy on Wheels is my butt boy.

If you're annoyed at me

If you are looking at this page because I've made an edit which really annoys you, it's likely to be one of the following

• I've undertaken a large re-vamping of Latin spelling and pronunciation to make it less simplistic, more detailed and more up-to-date with late 20th century scholarship. If something I've added to the article seems weird or flat-out wrong to you, I urge you to check the source listed before reverting it.

• I've also taken something of a hatchet to Hafez, an article which has suffered violence at the hands of editors who seem to think that the page is a place for them to describe how they feel about the poet.

• I've begun culling and modifying the Rumi article so as to reflect scholarship rather than New Age postulations and ethno-national bickering. When I find someone trying to project modern western attitudes about Rumi back in time and space into medieval Persia and Turkey, I'm going to edit it out. If I catch a whiff of anyone fighting over whether Rumi was "really" Iranian, Afghan, Persian or Turkish (as if those distinctions meant anything at the time,) it's going to be reverted.

Articles I Have Created

Slavic microlanguages, Adel Karasholi, Raymond C Kelly, Jeanne-Marie Cash

Future Projects

• Give Palestinian Arabic another major overhaul

• Bring articles on Varieties of Arabic and the Arabic Language up to speed with modern research that rejects the Standard/Colloquial diglossic distinction in favor of an approach that describes Arabic as a continuum.

• Fix Arabic Poetry so that it does not suck.

Articles Needing Enlargement

I've deemed the following articles to be in need of enlargement with material from their corresponding Wikipedia articles in other languages.

• From Catalan: Valencian Socialist Party, Matilde Salvador i Segarra and (most urgently) Ausiàs March

• From Galician: Rosalía de Castro

• From Arabic: Fadwa Touqan, Ghassan Kanafani, Abdul Salam Arif, Mubarak Al-Sabah and Ibn Khafaja.

• From Esperanto: Vilma Sindona Eichholz, Reinhard Haupenthal, Martin Haase and Frederic Pujulà i Vallés.

• From Russian: Latinisation (USSR), Kazakh alphabet

Articles I plan to create

• Qasmuna bint Isma'il- Jewish female poet from 12th century Andalusia who wrote in Arabic.
• Al-Shanfara- pre-Islamic Su'luk poet and author of the لامية العرب, one of the most influential Arabic poems ever
• Muhammad al-Fayturi- Sudanese poet
• Faiza Abdullah Sultan- Iraqi poet
• Cantares Gallegos- book of poetry by Rosalía de Castro
• Persian prosody
• History of the Ukrainian Language
• History of the Albanian Language
• History of the Italian Language
• Phonological History of the French Language

Me and Life

Me and Politics

كوردستانThis user supports a free Kurdistan.

This user recognizes the Palestinian right of return.^‡

This user supports the independence of Tibet.

This user supports both straight and gay marriages, and is against any restrictions on who can marry.

This user supports the troops in Iraq.

This user recognizes the right of Iraqis to resist occupation.

This user is not drug-free.

This user is against
strict gun control.

♂♀This user supports gender equality.

This user supports peace in space.

This male user supports feminism.

Me and Math

$\pi \neq {\frac {p}{q}}$

This user can prove that $\pi$ is irrational.

6×9=42This user jokes in base 13.

$\sum _{k=1}^{\infty }{x^{k} \over k!}$This user loves problem solving.

$0.{\bar {9}}$=1

This user knows that 0.9...(repeating) is exactly 1 and can prove it, but wishes that other people could understand it the way he does.

Me and Religion

This user is Satan.

This user doesn't believe in myths or superstitions.

Hanlon's RazorThis user never attributes to malice that which is best explained by stupidity. ^†

This user strives to be
unfair against unfounded myth
and unbalanced in service of the truth.

This user is interested in religion.

تصوفThis user is interested in Sufism.

This user is interested in the Qur'an.

ﷲThis user is interested in Islam.

no funThis user would argue that, despite its name, there is hardly any "fun" at all in fundamentalism...!

Me and Sex

This user is bisexual, not confused.

This user is a bi male.

This user identifies as queer.

Me and Music

This user's favorite composer is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

This user plays the flute.

This user enjoys the big band sound

This user enjoys heavy metal music.

This user can't stand hip hop music.

Me and Literature

This user enjoys reading poetry.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Poetry.

This user has read all of William Shakespeare's plays.

This user enjoys the works of
Isaac Asimov.

This user loves the poetry of Constantine P. Cavafy.

بعيشكThis user enjoys the poetry of Ibn Khafaja.
هذا المستخدم يستمتع بشعر ابن خفاجة

This user enjoys the poetry of
Wilfred Owen.

OSCThis user enjoys the works of Orson Scott Card.

1.618... This user is under the influence of Philip K. Dick.

Me and my Computer

This user maintains a blog.

LJThis user maintains a LiveJournal.

This user uses Google as a primary search engine.

This user contributes using a MacBook.

C++This user can program in C++.

This user can program in JavaScript.

<html>This user can write HTML.

{{Wiki}}This user is an intermediate writer in the MediaWiki language.

C-0This person does not understand C (or does not want to program in C).

|This user hates that their keyboard doesn't include the | key.

Me and Wikipedia

This user is a participant of
WikiProject
Countering systemic bias.

This user is a WikiDragon.
...one of the last of a dying breed...

This user believes that Conservapedia is about as trustworthy as North Korea is democratic.

This user is an occasional, recreational and non-malicious vandal.

wiki-2This user is an intermediate Wikipedia editor.

IP addressThis user supports mandatory registration.

This user finds copyright paranoia disruptive.

This user reserves the right to completely screw up their own edits.

This user enjoys contributing to Wikipedia without wearing clothes.

This user believes that common sense trumps all other arguments.

This user enjoys reading Wikitruth.

This user feels that an article's talk page contributes to its success and should be treated accordingly.

Me and Other Stuff

This user attends or attended the University of Chicago.

This user wants a philosopher king.

IQ	This user's Intelligence Quotient is between 160 and 185.

This user has
Asperger's.