User:Kaleissin

I am an old-school grouch who spends too much time reading and too little time in the big blue room.

Interests

 * all things language and linguistics
 * descriptive linguistics, that is: typology and universals
 * computational linguistics including corpus linguistics and machine translation
 * conlanging
 * Making machine-readable linguistic resources like grammars and dictionaries for languages that lack them
 * Would like to know the following languages better:
 * Euskara (Basque)
 * tlhIngan (Klingon)
 * Latin
 * Turkish
 * Would like to be properly fluent in:
 * German
 * French
 * computers, computing, programming and all that jazz (but not consoles) but especially
 * Python, because it has become my native programming language
 * computational linguistics
 * Using sets instead of trees in categorization/ontologies (trees suck to describe natural phenomena!)
 * Freenixes like Linux (currently running Ubuntu) and *BSD's (currently running FreeBSD, looking into DragonflyBSD)
 * Computer games:
 * First person sneakers like the Thief series and all things Looking Glass Studios
 * Simulators like the Civilization-series and things like Starcraft, though not so much Sim City
 * MMORPGs without leveling but based on cooperation and communication like Untìl Uru
 * Adventure games like The Longest Journey, Myst, but also text adventures, the Sierra adventure series and the Lucasarts adventure games
 * general world building, including conlanging
 * drinkable stuff
 * tea, also iced tea
 * various carbonated beverages, especially schorle and pepsi max
 * hot and cold concoctions based on cocoa
 * beer (especially wheat and trappiste)
 * cider (English and French) and apfelwein (from Frankfurt)
 * calvados (the cider's answer to cognac)
 * rum (especially dark and Cuban) and its associated drinks
 * white wine (especially riesling from Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, Nähe and Alsace, kabinett or better)
 * eatable stuff, especially if not in the IMHO much overused and boring French/Italien international nice restaurant style
 * Pork is quite simply the meat of the gods
 * Bulgur is the clearly the best carbohydrate-source
 * I try to eat at least one dish of blasfemic food a week. Liberate your tastebuds!

Edits when not logged in
(So easy to do, especially when the #%$ login times out!)


 * Diff of Adjective by 80.203.114.22.

Useful links

 * WP Boilerplate

Pages I've started (some even in a proper manner)

 * Bernard Comrie
 * Kaiserschmarrn - yummmm
 * Ladislav Zgusta
 * Murray B Emeneau and countless redirects
 * Schleicher's fable, which seems to be the most popular of my additions
 * Schorle
 * Tsolyáni
 * William Croft (linguist)
 * Winfred P. Lehmann
 * Balaibalan

Subpages

 * Sandbox - just what it sounds like
 * Blasfemic food - unless it becomes a trend (fat chance) this stays right where it is
 * Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics - under construction
 * User:Kaleissin/Couronne - under construction
 * User:Kaleissin/Aleppo soap - under construction

To keep an eye on

 * List of conlang-related articles
 * Potential vandal: 66.216.172.77