User:Dionysia/Languages

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[edit] Human Language

[edit] English

In theory, I am a native English speaker -- however, my facility with English is rather irregular. Of the four parts of language, my skills in writing are by far the best when measured by an academic standard.

ang-1 Þes brūcere cann forðian mid grundlicgendre mǣðe Englisces.
Old English
enm-2 Muchel knoweth this segge of Englissh.
Middle English
en-
us-N		 This user is a native speaker of American English.
en-gb-2 This user is an intermediate speaker of British English.


en-us-ca Dude, this person is totally a California English speaker.
Life on the Alta/Baja border, man
en-ca-4 This user speaks Canadian English at a near-native level.
Maritimes, Newfoundland and Quebec, yah
SoE-3 This here user has an advanced understanding of Southern American English and has developed something of a drawl.
I am truly blessed that my family hails from Charleston and New Orleans
LE-0 This individual still maintains a shred of dignity in this insane world by adhering to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalisation.
Mix This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently.
Which ought to be self-evident, from the forgoing data

[edit] Romance

es-2 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.
Spanish (Castellano e idioma de México)
Ladino
fr-3 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.
French
fro-1 Icest faitre poet assister a un nivel bas de la langue francor.
Old French
ast-3 Esti usuariu pue contribuir con un nivel avanzáu d'asturianu.
Asturian
ca-1 Aquest usuari pot contribuir amb un nivell bàsic de català.
Catalan
la-2 Hic utilisator media latinitate contribuere potest.
Latin
oc-3 Aqueste utilizaire pòt contribuir amb un nivèl avançat d'occitan.
Occitan
pt-1 Este usuário/utilizador pode contribuir com um nível básico de português.
Portuguese
ht-1 Moun sa konen kek mo nan kreyòl ayisyen.
Haitian (epi Kreyol Lwiziyen)

[edit] Asian

ja-2 この利用者はある程度の日本語を話すことができます。
Japanese 日本語
zh-1 該用戶能以基本的中文進行交流。
该用户能以基本的中文进行交流。
Mandarin 中文
Wen 文言文 (literary Chinese)
yue-2 呢個用戶可以用一般嘅粵語進行交流。
呢个用户可以用一般嘅粤语进行交流。
Cantonese 粵語/粤语

[edit] Other

grc-1 Ὅδε ὁ χρήστης δύναται συνεισφέρειν ὀλίγῃ γνώσει τῆς ἀρχαίας ἑλληνικῆς.
Classical Greek Αρχαία Ελληνική
Arab-1
ع		 This user has a basic understanding of the Arabic script.
ipa-1
ə		 This user has a basic understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
nah-1 Inīn tlatequitiltilīlli tlahtoa tetepitzin Nahuatlahtōlcopa.
Nahuatl (Aztecan)

[edit] Grammar

[edit] Grammar & Usage

snuk This user says snuck.
to¦go This user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.
by This user does not like the passive voice.
…in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with.
man-
kind		 Regarding gender, this user will use the vernacular, not what is "politically correct".

[edit] Punctuation

.  The This user puts two spaces after a full stop.
, This user fixes comma splices. They are annoying.
A, B, and
A and B		 This user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing.
its This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is).
’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.
… This user is addicted to ellipses and has been known to use them indiscriminately....

[edit] Programming

Note to world: my usual attitude towards my putative programming skills is "don't ask, don't tell". I developed these skills because they were necessary to the pursuit of other goals. I do not, outside of database development, consider myself to be any sort of programmer. The following is offered for completeness' sake -- except where otherwise noted, assume absolute minimal ability.

C-0 This person does not understand C (or does not want to program in C).
The latter, not the the former
ada This user can program in Ada.
Strange but true
If I have, oh, say, all the time in the world
cobol This user can program in COBOL.
For the same reasons I can use Ada
for This user can program in Fortran.
Inevitable result of using programmable calculators
M This user can program in
Mathematica.
Extensively -- for fun, even
php This user can program in PHP.
Very badly, but improving steadily
bash This user is a bash scripter.
True to my dinosaur nature, I still use Bourne shell by preference
batch-1 This user is an occasional Batch programmer.
This should surprise no one
.css This user can write Cascading Style Sheets.
With amazing inaccuracy, yes
<html> This user can write HTML.
In my sleep
This user can typeset using LaTeX.
mysql This user writes programs that access MySQL.
re This user is a regular expression programmer.
Whenever possible
sql This user uses SQL queries to locate car keys.
...and anything else of import in life
{{Wiki}} This user can write in the MediaWiki language
You think this page got here by magic?