User:Denihilonihil

Gigni de nihilo nihil, in nihilo nil posse reverti
From this famous quote by the Roman poet and satirist Persius was derived my username.


 * yu. high school student from the tropical island of Singapore.


 * would like to be intellectual some day.

Personal leanings

 * Civil libertarian
 * Affirmative action opponent
 * Pro-choice on abortion
 * Gay rights advocate
 * Minarchist, i.e. small-government advocate
 * Social liberal
 * Fiscal conservative
 * Socialist (more British rather than French)
 * but against welfare states

Recommendations

 * Black Adder

Historical linguistics and languages

 * Development of the Germanic languages from Proto-Indo-European
 * Grimm's law, Verner's law, High German consonant shift
 * English as a glorified creole
 * Genealogy of Japanese
 * Relation of Japanese to Korean and the Altaic language family
 * Relation of Japanese to the Austronesian languages
 * Old and Middle Chinese

Politics and political science

 * Liberalism
 * Democratic Party
 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau, especially Du Contrat Social

History

 * European history
 * French Revolution
 * Russian history from the tsarist period to the 1917 Revolution
 * Oriental history
 * Chinese history from the Han dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period and from the Tang dynasty to the Qing dynasty
 * Japanese history up till the Heian period and from the Edo period to the modern era
 * The Korean Three Kingdoms period and Unified Silla
 * Modern world history, especially from the Enlightenment period to the end of World War II

To Do

 * 1) Translations of high-quality Wikipedia articles in other languages to English where the English version is not up-to-mark
 * 2) Spelling, punctuation and grammar: copyediting