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As a totally unrelated aside, I happen to be a second generation Swedish-Finnish-American; my maternal grandfather was from Finland and my maternal grandmother from Sweden. My mother was born here in the States; she died when I was quite young (as did my grandfather) and I rarely got to see my grandmother, so I don't have a clue about the language or culture of either country. I am forever spelling my middle name ("Nystrom") for people and/or explaining or correcting its pronunciation (neither of which I am certain is correct, the "o" may actually be "ö"; the pronunciation I was taught is like the English words "knee" and "strum". My first-grade teacher told me it couldn't possibly be my name as it wasn't a word! This despite the fact that there was a Nystrom World Map in every classroom in the school, including hers, a fact my father came to school and pointed out. Angrily. (I suppose it's disheartening to learn that your child's teachers aren't very intelligent themselves in some ways.)

As you may also have guessed, I identify as gay; it turns out that my mother was a lesbian who loved and married my father in order to have children—pretty much the only option available for lesbians at that time. I sometimes wonder if part of my orientation truly is inherited. She died when I was 5 months old, so I never knew her. Imagine my reaction when I was nervously talking to my father about my orientation ("coming out") and he told me about hers. Guess which one of us was more surprised?

Lastly, I also tend to think of myself as a musician (or at least have done so in the past). I have sung in community choruses, glee clubs, church choirs, etc. since I was 6. I was a cantor at two different Episcopal (Anglican) churches (one of which, we used to say, had a priest who couldn't have carried a tune if you had handed it to him in a bucket. With a lid on it). Over the years, I also sang with the Pacific Gay and Lesbian Singers (no longer existing), the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. I used to play some very basic piano, and even more basic guitar; I haven't sung or played any sort of instrument for many years now.

This is probably much more info than you need or want, but I usually notice references to Finland (and Sweden less so, I don't know why). Someday I hope to visit. Take care.—Chidom talk  21:24, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Wonderful story. I like your sense of humor. That is quite rare in a Swede! In case you're wondering, "Nyström" means new stream in Swedish. Oddly enough, like it sounds.76.105.3.220 05:17, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time to write someting on my userpage, this is the first time anyone has written anything non-wikipedia related here. :-) It's actually interesting to hear of what has become of Finns who have moved abroad, especially the USA - people here sometimes discuss the subject. There's an element of "they moved there, we stayed here - what would life be like if things had been different?"
Regarding your surname: The correct Swedish spelling would indeed be with an ö, Nyström. (How do I know this? Swedish is the second official language of Finland, as you probably know.) Ny means new and ström means stream, as you also probably knew. When it comes to pronunciation you are mostly correct.
I've read conflicting reports on whether or not homosexuality is inherited. But nevertheless, I believe almost everyone has a gay or a lesbian relative, some of them quite possibly closeted, some of them not. I have an aunt who is gay (never knew her though).
And when you visit Finland, be prepared for the culture shock. =D I recommend summertime - end of June until beginning of August is probably a safe time to visit. The atmosphere in the winter is mostly cold, wet, dark and depressing, and so are the people.--Wormsie 22:36, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Hmmm...."cold, wet, dark and depressing"? I had a date like that once. Oh, wait. I was a date like that. More than once. Having lived in San Francisco for more than 15 years, I know wet and dark; I now live in Chicago, so I know cold and depressing. I would certainly visit in summer; I couldn't deal with hours of twilight or darkness, I'm depressed enough as it is.
I was always told Nyström was Finnish, not Swedish, but what do I know? As far as the pronunciation goes, since there is an umlaut, there's no real way to communicate it in terms of English pronunciation—I don't think we have a sound anything like the vowels with umlauts in other languages. Probably the pronunciation of "strew" comes the closest to "ö" , but it's still not quite right, it needs to be a bit nasal, I think. Because I sang umpteen gazillion (not quite a miljardi, but seems like it) songs in German, however, I think I'd do a pretty good job (assuming that the pronunciation is the same between the languages). What we were taught in singing German was to make the vowel sound "u" as in "you" (what we would call a "hard" u) but shape your mouth as though you were going to say "e" as in "feet" (a "hard" e). This was referred to as the "e embouchure". Although that term is most often used to refer to how an instrumentalist shapes their mouth to the mouthpiece of a wind instrument, it's occasionally used to describe the shape of a singer's mouth as well. Of course, it's been awhile, I could have that exactly backwards, and it's ee through the u embouchure. I think I was told that Swedish and Finnish were both common in both countries, but I wouldn't swear to that. Last I knew (around 1981), my cousin in Helsinki worked for the Swedish-Finnish Newspaper Association. I seem to recall that her business card had the organization's name in Finnish, Swedish, and German. In German, I think it all ran together, along the lines of "SchwedischFinnischZeitungsvereinigung" or something.
Anyway, glad to touch base a bit. Your English seems quite excellent, by the way!—Chidom talk  00:39, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SatyrBot and Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Hi, Wormsie! You gotta be careful about that irony thing - I can't see your face so was totally taken in by your comment! You should have seen my feathers ruffling :) In any case, the more projects an article has supporting it, the more info and expertise can be brought to bear. So I hope the stray comment about his fashion sense won't bother you too much :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 18:13, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Would you yourself be interested in joining the WikiProject? It would be good to have you! Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, but LGBT really sin't my area - I mean, despite being gay, I'm not really that interested in the subject, and reading the latest news of the advancement of homophobia every day or protecting LGBT-related Wikipedia-articles from vandalism isn't the sort of thing I like to do. My passions are elsewhere, mostly.--Wormsie 10:13, 26 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Glenn Gould, Leonard Bernstein and the Brahms 1st Piano Concerto

Hello. Can you explain why you deleted the text I inserted about the 1962 performance? Bernstein's pre-performance remarks are justly (in)famous, and while his words are his own creation and not Glenn Gould's, they nevertheless relate just as much to Gould as to Bernstein. They provide an insight from one famous artist into the mind of another. Deleting good-faith additions without so much as a word of explanation seems somewhat rude to me. Cheers -- JackofOz 01:04, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi! I did try to explain myself in the talk-page. I know my edit didn't go as smoothly as I would have wanted, but in general, I just thought it strange that there was a long quote of a somewhat trivial matter in the middle of a section. I would have moved it elshwere, trimmed, but didn't succeed :P--Wormsie 18:35, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] First person adventure

I redirected first person adventure games to graphical adventure games. The article could really use some help. Any research you can dig up and incorporate is helpful. Then again, clean-up and clarification is good too. It's kind of tough to expand *and* clean up at the same time. Either way, the article would definitely be better off with your contributions! Thanks for being understanding through this AFD / merge debate. Randomran (talk) 21:12, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of NoteEdit

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