User:Jacopone

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I am an ardent supporter of Wikipedia, though completely new to the process of creating and editing articles, a qualification that I hope to be able to remove from this page with time and practice. I'm particularly enamoured of Wikipedia's articles on languages and linguistics and find them (for the most part) to be extremely competent, rigorous and informative. Indeed, I can't imagine a comparable offering of linguistic descriptions from any for-profit general encyclopedia. (I think a closer comparison would instead be, say, to the OCD's articles on Latin and Classical Greek). In short, I would rank languages and linguistics alongside computer science as one of Wikipedia's flagship disciplines.

Aside from my ex cathedra opinions on the foregoing subject, I should probably mention that I'm a US citizen, a student of languages and literature, and I should also point out that despite my Italianate alias, I'm not of Italian descent, but rather adopted this handle in honor of Jacopone da Todi, the medieval Franciscan poet (Belacqua already having been taken).