User:DBowie

(And yes, I know that it's horribly ugly—I'm still working on it.)

No, really, that is my name.

Well, not just interested, actually—I am a variationist sociolinguist, and most of my degrees are in linguistics.

While attending grad school, I learned one of the great truths of life.

Since I am a linguist by training and profession, people often ask me how many languages I know.

People also sometimes ask me for my professional opinions on their grammatical usage.

As a linguist, I know several methods of representing speech phonetically. Some I use regularly (the IPA), while I’ve gained experience with others due to my work (the Deseret Alphabet).

I have a number of non-professional but serious interests, as well.

In many ways, though, I am your run-of-the-mill nerd:

Moving to a purely personal level, I enjoy many wastes of time.

And so forth.

Oh—and it had to be: