User:Fitzwilliam

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. - Albert Einstein

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[edit] About me

Hi there, I'm a Hong Kong wikipedian. I've been an editor of Wikipedia since February 13, 2006. My Wiki ID is 957624.

I had thought I should take my pinyin name as the name here. But that seems too ordinary. So, I picked the given name of a gentleman who was the protagonist of a very famous novel. :)

I love Wikipedia. It is the very place where people can contribute and share knowledge. Without Wikipedia, I wouldn't have aspired to learn more about language and culture.

ZH JA
This user is male.
... This user would like to be able to speak some more languages.
zh 這個用戶的母語中文
这个用户的母语中文
zh-yue 哩個用戶嘅母語粵語
哩个用户嘅母语粤语
en-4 This user speaks English at a near-native level.

[edit] Language

Eight strokes of 永
Eight strokes of 永

How many languages are related to you?

Me:

  • Through family relationship: Chinese (Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka), English (US, Aus), German, Vietnamese.
  • Through education: English (HK variant of UK), Mandarin.
  • Through pop culture: French, Japanese.

Thoughts about Chinese:

  • I use traditional characters by default and don't oppose the simplified ones. However, ambiguous simplification should be reverted.
  • Dialects, in the Chinese context, are dialects; in other contexts, languages. The desperate lack of studying materials for dialects can be fatal. I'm of Teochew and Cantonese descent, yet I'm zh-teochew-0.

Interest: Mainly speaking. I love rhotics very much. Many European languages would be very boring without those rhotics.

Learning: I'm very interested in language learning. It's fun because you can see the world in a different way by picking up a new language. Do you have any special language learning experiences? You may write it here.

[edit] Recent

(Borrowed from User:Kitia, edited)

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[edit] Trivia

As of 3 September, 2006,

According to the Political Compass this user is:
Economic Left (-2.5) and
Social Libertarian (-2.56)