User:Szfski

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[edit] About Me

Me & Languages ...! This user knows all languages, and is most likely Dr. Daniel Jackson. This user is a member of the WikiProject Languages. I translate and proofread from French to English on Wikipedia:Translation I translate and proofread from Spanish to English on Wikipedia:Translation I translate and proofread from Arabic to English on Wikipedia:Translation I translate and proofread from Russian to English on Wikipedia:Translation I translate and proofread from German to English on Wikipedia:Translation ⇔ I translate from Catalan to English on Wikipedia:Translation ⇔ I translate from Portuguese to English on Wikipedia:Translation ⇔ I translate from Dutch to English on Wikipedia:Translation fgn-4 This user speaks several dialects of foreign at a near native level. ipa ə This user fully understands the International Phonetic Alphabet. …in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with. to¦go This user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives. they This user considers singular they standard English usage. English Singulars: "The data is..." This user recognizes that "data", "media", and "agenda" have become incorporated into English as singular nouns. خط هذا المستخدم يعشق الخط العربي. This user loves Arabic calligraphy. اي الكلام ده؟ هذا المستخدم يؤيد استخدام العامية في الكتابة. This user supports the use of colloquial Arabic in writing. ايها المتحذلق هذا المستخدم يعتبر الفصحى لغة صناعية. This user considers Modern Standard Arabic to be a constructed language. بتعرف ايش؟ هذا المستخدم يستقبح استقباح العامية. This user is revolted by those who denigrate colloquial Arabic.

Me & Politics كوردستان This user supports a free Kurdistan. This user supports the independence of Palestine. This user recognizes the Palestinian Right of Return.‡ This user supports the independence of Tibet. This user supports both straight and gay marriages, and is against any restrictions on who can marry. This user supports the troops in Iraq. This user recognizes the right of Iraqis to resist occupation. This user is not drug-free. This user is against strict gun control. This user is a capitalist.

I am a hyperpolyglot, mainly here to hone my mad translation skills and occasionally contribute to articles pertaining to linguistics and the Middle East.

I am also bisexual and may sometimes fantasize about the poet Abū Nuwās.

[edit] Fields of Knowledge

Indo-European Linguistics.

Sociolinguistics.

Contact linguistics.

European and Middle-Eastern literary history.

[edit] Favorite Quotes

The opposite of love is not hate. It's indifference. -Elie Wiesel

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. -Mosheh Ben Maimon

Антирусский заговор, безусловно, существует — проблема только в том, что в нем участвует все взрослое население России. (The anti-Russian conspiracy does definitely exist. The problem is that Russia's entire adult population participates in it.) -Victor Pelevin

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society -Krishnamurti

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say “I know” instead of “I am learning” and pray for credulity and inertia as wisemen pray for skepticism and activity -George Bernard Shaw

على قدر أهل العزم تأتي العزائم وتأتي على قدر الكرام المكارم وتعظم في عين الصغير صغارها وتصغر في عين العظيم العظائم (Resolutions are measured against the resolver, generosity against the giver./ Littleness is aggrandized by little men, and greatness belittled by the great) -Al Mutanabbi to Sayf-al-Dawla

"Мне надо было узнать тогда, и поскорей узнать, вошь ли я, как все, или человек? Смогу ли я переступить или не смогу! Осмелюсь ли нагнуться и взять или нет? Тварь ли я дрожащая или право имею..." (I had to know, and know right then if I was a louse like the rest, or a human. Will I be able to commit the deed, or won't I? Am I bold enough to bend down and pick it up or not? Am I a quivering creature, or do I have rights?) -Raskol'nikov in Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment"

אַל־תְּהִ֤י צַדִּיק֙ הַרְבֵּ֔ה וְאַל־תִּתְחַכַּ֖ם יֹותֵ֑ר לָ֖מָּה תִּשֹּׁומֵֽם Be not too righteous, nor too wise, for why would you destroy yourself? -Ecclesiastes, 7:16

אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט (A language is a dialect with an army and a navy) -Max Weinreich