User:XJamRastafire

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--xJaMRastafire :2003.11.13.02.22:00(UTC) | 7880 Non-anonymous Contributions. Currently (2007.02.10) I am a 1348th most active Wikipedian.

Jani Melik, born February 22, 1964, a mechanical engineer, a CAD designer, member of the DMFA.
More extensive bio data and photos at my current homepage in Slovene

Born to Slovene parents and live in Celje, Southwestern Lower Styria, Slovenia. For a short period I had studied physics and astronomy at the University of Ljubljana (UL) and after that I had changed the studies to mechanical engineering at the University of Maribor (UM). At present I am a 3D CAD designer in a die (tool making) sheet metal industry, extensively using Unigraphics NX2, CATIA and Euclid Drafter softwares.

My contributions to Wikipedia in Slovene: http://sl.wikipedia.org
Indexed list of some personal initial (*) and other (°) contributions to the English Wikipedia: ** 1 **

Wikipedia:Babel de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. en-3 This user is able to contribute with an advanced level of English. hr-4 Ovaj suradnik hrvatski razumije kao da mu je materinski jezik. ru-2 Этот участник неплохо знает русский язык. sh-4 Корисник одлично говори српскохрватски. Korisnik odlično govori hrvatskosrpski. sl Uporabnik govori slovenski jezik kot materni jezik. sr-4 Овај корисник течно говори српски језик. c-4 This user is an expert C programmer. c++-2 This user is an intermediate C++ programmer. This user [1] an administrator on the English Wikipedia. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. This user is a backgammon player.

Places visited Miscellaneous XJamRastafire, I award you this barnstar for the amazing level of contributions you have made to Wikipedia. Ajgorhoe, March 14, 2004 Favourite things Scots Pine Pinus sylvestris Jupiter

Partial chaotically ordered set of my interests in the English version of Wikipedia are listed bellow but, since I am participating here, I must say, my interests have grown to very high altitudes almost from a nowhere-land. I would like to believe I know something, but most probably I might be wrong. I am glad to hear that Janez Demšar was spending 2 years on physics at UL where he learned some mathematics as he wouldn't learn it otherwise at other universities or elsewhere in some SF novel for instance. After that he became a FRIar. Numbers are like children as they say. Our human civilization | universe is young, so there is a vast amount of time. Or is it? Let me give here one Solomon Lefschetz's quote

Don't come to me with your pretty proofs. We don't bother with that baby stuff around here.

which tells me much.

Recent ardent debates:

• Hipparchus|Hipparchos
• Venethi theory - NPOV dispute
• Arnulf of Karantania
• Slovene|Slovenian/Talk - I am planning to protest about silent adopting a term Slovenian instead of Slovene - perhaps even to Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales) In an interview for Slovene National TV's broadcast Resnična resničnost (True reality) he fairly used a term Slovene, so I can't see why Wikipedia should use the other term ...
  • Some American and Canadian schoolars (Edward Gobetz) showed that a word Slovene came into English from a French word Slovėnes and therefore is incorrect, since there is a rule in English which says that countries which ends in -ia, have adjectives derived as -ian. Slovenes themselves gained their own state in 1991, and before this date they even could not be called properly in English.
  • By one hypothesis Venedes were the Proto-Slavs (Proto-Slovenes, Slo-veneti, Sloventi - from the last word Sloventi one might look for the Slovene word for Slovenes, when 't' is soften to 'c', producing Slovenci), an Aryan folk from Sorbian (Lusatian (Lusation), Wendish) culture along the Amber Path conquer and settle region between the Baltic sea and Adriatic Sea.
  • As it seems, scholars do not concern non-English etimologies. The word *sloveninъ 'Slav', *slovene in Proto-Slavic means Slavs and is derived from one basis *slov- known in geographical names and is preserved in names of rivers Lithuanian Šlave, Russian Sluja, Polish Sława, Sławica. Very similar is also Croatian, Serbian slavelj, slavina 'bung, 'pipe'. If a hypothesis is correct *Slovene firstly meant *'inhabitants along the river *Slova or *Slovy '. Proto-Indo-European basis is *klou- 'to wash, to rinse', and is known, for example, in Latin cluere 'to clean, to wash', Lithuanian šluoti 'to clean, to wipe'. After older interpretation, which is weaker in word formation and stronger in meaning, the name of the nation *slovene might be derived from Proto-Slavi *slovo 'word'. If this surmise is correct regardless to word formation, the name of the nation primarily meant something like *'people, to whom is possible to talk and who understand our language'. Marko Snoj Slovenski etimološki slovar (Slovene Etymological Dictionary), Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana 1997, (this is worth investigating)
  • The oldest quotation the Oxford English Dictionary has for "Slovene" is 1883, whereas the oldest for "Slovenian" is 1844, fully 43 years earlier. I think then it is fair to conclude that "Slovenian" is the older term. Secondly, the 1844 quotation for "Slovenian" is from the "Philological Society", which is a British organization, not an American one. (Nohat)
  • It appears Slovene American Friderik Irenej Baraga (1797–1868) already used the word 'Slovenian' in the mid of 19th century. Was Bishop Baraga a Slovene or a Slovenian? (BT2)
  • The Doubleday Dictionary, 1st Ed., Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City 1975:

• Slovene noun One of a group of S Slavs now living in NW Yugoslavia -- adjective Of or pertaining to the Slovenes or to their language. -- Slovenian adj., n..

• • Professor Peter Herrity's Slovene: A Comprehensive Grammar, which uses 'Slovene' in its name, as do most other works concentrating on the language in itself (Colloquial Slovene; A Basic Reference Grammar of Slovene; etc). (Sinuhe)
  • Webster's Dictionary:

• Slovene - noun - One of a southern Slavic group usually classed with the Serbs and Croats. The dictionary says Slovene is Greek. Maybe that's where we get "Nazarene", as the New Testament was written largely in Greek.
• Slovenian - adjective - Slovene; noun - a Slovene. Also, the language of the Slovenes, closely akin to Serbo-Croatian. (Wahkeenah)

• List of Slovenes
• Karantania|Karantania

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Notes:

1. Anyone is free to find two non-existent terms in the above list. A reward is two dark ales at Smash's pub what is about 4€ (a meek variation of Paul Erdös' reward on Collatz conjecture: mathematics is not yet ready but its lovers are). In fact there are three ones, but the third one does not count... {Reward was granted to Andrej in Slovene Wikipedia.}
2. I wonder if this project is worthy enough to "cawt" much of the precious time in it. It may happen in some next 500 years the Wikipedia would look totally different as it is at present. But I shout this won't happen as it is meant to be...
3. † These topics are obsolete or unsuitable for Wikipedia denoted by sysop college...