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en This user is a native speaker of English. de-4 Dieser Benutzer hat mit einem Muttersprachler vergleichbare Deutschkenntnisse. fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français. ga-2 Tá leibhéal meánach na Gaeilge ag an úsáideoir seo. la-2 Hic usor media latinitate contribuere potest. cy-1 Fe all y defnyddiwr 'ma cyfrannu ar lefel syml y Gymraeg. dsb-1 Toś ten wužywaŕ ma zakładne znajobnosći dolnoserbšćiny.
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My Wikipedia name is Angr, which derives from my real name and has nothing to do with being angry!

I joined Wikipedia in December 2004. I have been an admin since September 2005.

As of June 2006 I am also an admin at Wikimedia Commons, so feel free to ask if you have any questions there.

I'm an American living in Berlin, Germany. I have a Ph.D. in theoretical linguistics and am most interested in the Celtic languages, particularly Irish. I work as a German-to-English translator.

You can find links to my user pages at other Wikipedia projects in the "in other languages" box. I also have user pages at the following projects:

• Commons
• Meta
• Incubator
• Wikibooks
• English Wikisource
• German Wikisource
• International Wikisource
• Welsh Wikisource
• English Wiktionary

If you're really, really, really bored and want to become even more bored, you might look at /List of ISO 639-1 languages by genetic affiliation.

Contents 1 Gallery of barnstars 2 Contributions 2.1 Articles 2.2 Images 3 Subpages 4 To keep in mind 5 Favorite quotes 6 Wanderings

[edit] Gallery of barnstars

I, V. Molotov, hereby give you this Working Man's Barnstar for diligent and meritorious work on Wikipedia.[1]	To thank you for your comments in the discussion about Category:Wikipedians by politics, I´d like to award you the Outspoken Barnstars. Hope you like them! Larix[2]	I, Ag Foghlaim, award you this original Barnstar for your outstanding work on Gaeilge-related topics: Connacht Irish, Munster Irish, Ulster Irish, Irish phonology, Irish orthography, and others that I probably have not found yet. I want you to know that your work is not only immensely appreciated, but is also a great study/reference material to a learner like myself. Keep it up![3]	For removing 10000+ unencyclopedically unworthy pages from Wikipedia and helping to keep the encyclopedia in a healthy state - As a new admin, I can certainly attest to the unappetizing nature of this hard work (clearing CSD). Regards, Blnguyen[4]
For being an all-round nice guy and being the bane of WikiVandals' lives - Alison✍ 00:15, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[5]

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I, Persian Poet Gal, hereby award you The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for some hard anti-vandal work :)! ¤~Persian Poet Gal 11:06, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for working so hard on replaceable fair-use images, and for being courteous, informative, and flexible when users have had questions. Keep up the good work! – Quadell (talk) (random) 19:25, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Keep up the good work! Oden 13:15, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Contributions

[edit] Articles

I started or revived the following articles relating to Celtic languages:

Connacht Irish Consonant mutation Continental Celtic languages History of the Irish language A lot of the text was already at Irish language, though; I'm not the sole author of the first version of the page Irish initial mutations Irish morphology Irish name

Irish nominals Irish orthography Irish phonology Irish syntax Irish verbs Munster Irish Ulster Irish Welsh morphology

I started the following articles by translating them out of other languages (mostly German), as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles:

Bardonecchia Birch bolete Bode Museum Braslovče Carp bream Costa del Azahar Devil's bolete

Garden dormouse Garden tiger moth List of Korean philosophers Llucmajor Matti Hautamäki Wels catfish Western marsh orchid

However, I no longer translate from German Wikipedia, because they seem to be morally opposed to citing their sources over there. As far as I'm considered no article in German Wikipedia can be considered reliable.

Other articles I started:

American Catholic Church in the United States Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia Anglo-Frisian languages Anna Russell Bahnaric languages Bamar Basaa language Berlin Brandenburgish dialects Bhili language Brit shalom Checked and free vowels Chuukese language Cladh Hallan Compensatory lengthening Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe Dirty rice Fabian S. Woodley Fannie Flagg Free variation Glottalization Haselhorst John Walker (lexicographer)

Juliet Prowse Lenape language Lexical diffusion Linda Chavez Linda Chavez-Thompson Mixed language Neogrammarian Nez Percé language (didn't write the text myself, though; it had been deleted from Nez Percé, and I retrieved it from the history and started an article with it) Old English phonology Palatal ejective Plains Cree language Ring, County Waterford Rosalie Goes Shopping Syncretism (linguistics) Tanapag language Tenseness The North Wind and the Sun Theobald Stapleton Trembling Before G-d Velarization Wè language

[edit] Images

Mostly I upload images to Commons, see Commons:User:Angr/Gallery for my contributions.

Dragon Day 1996

McGovern, Pennsylvania

[edit] Subpages

• /Irish orthography
• /Sandbox
• /Reasons to leave
• /Carlson, the closest I've ever come to defending a "fair use" image
• /Unified English Spelling, a proposal for one spelling system for all varieties of English
• /Congrats
• /Presumed

[edit] To keep in mind

• Category:Fair use image replacement request
• Category:Fair use size reduction request

[edit] Favorite quotes

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

– Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

– James D. Nicoll, rec.arts.sf-lovers, 15 May 1990

I felt a kinship with [my atheist teacher]. It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them — and then they leap.

I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He bursts out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a way of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

– Yann Martel, Life of Pi

[edit] Wanderings

Countries where I've spent months to years

Countries where I've spent days to weeks

Countries where I've spent minutes to hours