User:Luigi22

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Userboxes es Este usuario tiene el español como lengua materna. en This user is a native speaker of English. AmE-0 This user does not understand the American English language and bloody well doesn't want to. man- kind Regarding gender, this user will use the vernacular, not what is "politically correct". its & it's This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you. ’s Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. [sic] infin¦itive This user chooses to sometimes split infinitives. A, B, and C This user prefers the serial comma. they This user considers singular they standard English usage. whom This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees. which & that This user knows how to use which and that correctly. eo-2 Ĉi tiu uzanto povas komuniki per meza nivelo de Esperanto. fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français. de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. ... This user would like to be able to speak more languages. Sec This user is in secondary school. FMS This user studies at, or is an alumnus of, a Marist Brother school. SPA This user's favourite subject is Spanish. This user supports the Communist Party of China, but only because there's nobody else to support. ubx-5 This user uses entirely too many userboxes.

Contents 1 Background 1.1 Ideals 1.2 Language 2 Contributions

[edit] Background

I'm a 16 year old Miami resident. I first discovered Wikipedia around 2002 by clicking a link to Godwin's Law posted on a Slashdot comment. As a high school student, I spend most of my time in class or doing work. With a job as a photojournalist at my school newspaper, I occasionally get to meet interesting people and take interesting pictures.

[edit] Ideals

Like any true Wikipedian, I am an idealist (albeit a very skeptical one) and believe in ideas such as direct democracy, Communism, Esperanto, and Wikipedia.

[edit] Language

I speak quite a few languages (the number varies depending on what you consider to be fluency), but living in the Anglosphere has led me to focus more on language issues in English than any other (as evidenced by my userboxes. I suffer from a mild case of Francophobia due to my beliefs that French grammar is too redundant, French vocabulary is neither sufficiently Romantic nor Germanic to be mutually intelligible, and French phonology is too archaic. Ironically, I am a major supporter of French culture and ideals.

[edit] Contributions

Despite having been a Wikipedian for a considerable amount of time, I have contributed far less than most users (particularly ThrashedParanoid, a friend of mine who has created a great deal of maps and flags). Rather, I employ the passive tactic of reading articles and reverting any vandalism I happen to notice.