User:Krsont

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I've been a fairly active contributor on wikipedia for a long time now, under various IPs and sometimes usernames; until I decided to settle on this one username, Krsont. I have a vague sense it means something like "shining one" or somesuch.

My interests and areas of not-really-expert-ise include: Historical linguistics, Comparative religion, Hinduism, Neopaganism.

I have a few pet hates on wikipedia:

first and foremost, all pronunciation guides should be in the International Phonetic Alphabet. If I see any more stuff like "pro-NOWNS" I will scream (literally; this has happened several times). And then I will replace it with IPA.

UPDATE: It has come to my attention that not everyone has the time or inclination to learn an alphabet that has symbols for every single sound used in spoken human language! Shocking, I know. So to help these people, who also might want to use an encyclopedia, I therefore pledge to keep/improve previous transcriptions based on English orthography along with adding IPA transcriptions.

I can live with the fact that Georgia is a disambig page, but it is very annoying. I know there's some other place called Georgia, but it's not nearly as interesting as the country is.

I've noticed that a few times I have edited a page immediately after it was vandalised, but not noticed the vandalisation, or thought that I had reverted a vandalisation but then found that my revert was incomplete, or that I had infact mistakenly reverted from a good version to a vandalised one. I apologize profusely and will attempt to be more vandal observant in future.

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en This user is a native speaker of English. de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français. cy-1 Fe all y defnyddiwr 'ma gyfrannu ar lefel syml y Gymraeg. la-1 Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest. ... This user would like to be able to speak many more languages. ipa-3 ə This user has an advanced understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Some out of context quotes that amused me:

from Fig wasp:

the crunchy bits in the fruit contain both seeds and wasps.

from Ellen Feiss:

in her own words, it "was, like, beep beep beep beep beebeebeebeep"

from War of Jenkins' Ear:

in 1738 Jenkins exhibited his pickled ear to the House of Commons.

from Death by Chocolate:

This article is about the dessert. For chocolate poisoning, see theobromine poisoning.

here are some userboxes.

This user is a Neopagan. YA This user is a young adult.

grammar/style preferences they This user considers singular they standard English usage. to¦go This user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives. by The passive voice may be used by this user. …in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with. who(m) This user uses either who or whom in the object case. which / that This user typically uses "which" and "that" interchangeably. Subj This user likes that the Subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it. . The This user does not put two spaces after a full stop. Mix This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently. SI This user prefers the metric system of measurement.

Y This user is a member of Generation Y. V This user is a vegetarian.

This user lives in England. This user is of multiple ancestries.

This user is of English ancestry. This user is of Irish ancestry.

This user is of Welsh ancestry. This user is of German ancestry.

AvPD This user suffers from avoidant personality disorder. Ø This user is a recluse.

This user is nocturnal. This user is an automath.