User:Kbh3rd

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ru-2 Этот участник неплохо знает русский язык.
la-1 Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest.
es-0 Este usuario no entiende español (o lo entiende con mucha dificultad).
de-0 Dieser Benutzer hat keine Deutschkenntnisse.
fr-0 Cet utilisateur ne comprend pas le français, ou seulement avec des difficultés notables.
ar-0 هذا المستخدم لا يفهم حرفاً في العربية.
eo-0 Ĉi tiu uzanto ne komprenas la lingvon Esperanto.
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6 yrs Russian; 2 yrs Latin; 1 sem. ea. Spanish, German, and French; limited self-study Esperanto and Arabic.

In my youth I read encyclopedias for recreation. I spent some TV-free summers with the Junior Encyclopædia Britannica, an erstwhile red-bound companion to the regular edition meant for the middle school years.


Articles started

Here are the articles that I have started. I like others to edit "my" articles – the resulting improvement is a Good Thing. Pictures greatly enhance most articles, so most of these have pictures(*), many of them pictures that I created(**). My gallery contains all the images that I've created for many other articles.


¹ Existing article rewritten from scratch.

Style

I hate parenthetical remarks. If a statement is worth making then it is most likely worth placing in a regular sentence. There will be exceptions, of course, but they should be very rare. In addition to Wikipedia's Manual of Style, here is a good style guide that I adapted from one found on the internet[1], attributed to "the paper" at Fordham University in 1988.

How to Write Good

My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules.
  1. Avoid Alliteration. Always.
  2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
  3. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
  4. Employ the vernacular.
  5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
  6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
  7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
  8. Contractions aren't necessary.
  9. Foreign words and phrases are verboten.
  10. One should never generalize.
  11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
  12. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
  13. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
  14. Profanity sucks.
  15. Be more or less specific.
  16. Understatement is always best.
  17. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

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Copyrights

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Multi-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License versions 1.0 and 2.0
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under the GFDL and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0 and version 2.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides.

 — Kbh3rdtalk

NOTE BENE: In a case where the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that infringement was committed willfully, the court in its discretion may increase the award of statutory damages to a sum of not more than $150,000. U.S.C. Title 17 § 504(c)(2)

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