User:Schoen

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(I've also studied Hebrew, ancient Greek, and -- as a small child -- French, but I doubt that my knowledge of any of them is sufficient to help Wikipedia. I have only ever carried on a conversation without a phrasebook and written a letter by myself in English, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and German.)

Hi there
My name is Seth Schoen.

I'm working on some grammar articles: User:Schoen/Indirect discourse (intended to receive redirects eventually from Indirect statement and Indirect question); User:Schoen/Sequence of tenses; User:Schoen/Double dative.

This reminds me -- how about all the kinds of genitive, kinds of dative, kinds of accusative, and kinds of ablative? Latin grammar is influential enough that each kind of use of each Latin grammatical case has received its own individual technical name, which may not be the case in other inflected languages.

I'm also working on User:Schoen/The world, the flesh, and the devil.

I would really like to do an article on Vegetarian literature or Literature of vegetarianism or just plain History of vegetarianism. There are some useful secondary sources on this topic including the catalogues of a few antiquarian bookdealers who specialize in vegetarian literature.

I did a translation of Referendum concerning the prohibition of the sale of firearms and ammunition from the Portuguese.

Among other things, I made some contributions to


 * Martin Gardner
 * Henry George Liddell (philologist and Alice in Wonderland's father) -- managed to do something about his co-authors except (so far) for Roderick McKenzie (1887 - June 24, 1937)
 * A Greek-English Lexicon
 * Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group

I wrote


 * A Latin Dictionary
 * Intelsat 708
 * Mordicai Gerstein
 * Sors Vergiliana
 * Area Control Center

I provided illustrations for


 * Herborn
 * Wannsee Conference; Final solution

In mostly no particular order, I was thinking of working on (or writing, where appropriate)


 * DRM
 * DMCA
 * copyright
 * WIPO Broadcast Treaty or Broadcast Treaty -- perhaps formally, the WIPO Treaty for the Protection of the Rights of Broadcasting, Cablecasting and Webcasting Organizations, although there are other titles floating around
 * loyalty oath, California loyalty oath, loyalty oath controversy, etc.
 * Betamax (legal doctrine)
 * Northfield Mount Hermon
 * animal rights
 * Gregory Chaitin
 * Claude Shannon
 * Harold Abelson
 * Vergil and Aeneid (maybe Sors Vergiliana, which is mentioned in several other places?)
 * trusted computing
 * Edward Felten
 * Fred von Lohmann
 * Dunlavey - Sony v. Universal lawyer
 * Charles Howard Hinton and maybe other interesting people who have been talked about in Gardner articles
 * reverse engineering
 * No Starch Press
 * Simon Finch - bookdealer
 * law professors (especially those with an interest in copyright -- Eben Moglen, Julie Cohen, Jessica Litman, Jane Ginsburg, Jamie Boyle)
 * Lochner
 * DESChall, cracking DES, brute force, cryptographic contests, etc.
 * humanitarian law
 * Pigeonhole Principle
 * Raymond Smullyan
 * Roald Hoffman (chemist) - author of The same and not the same, etc.
 * Hale (critic of laissez faire)
 * Patrick Ball - human rights statistician (and maybe human rights statistics/human rights demography/human rights documentation)
 * similarly truth and reconciliation
 * various red scares
 * the Cooperative Computing Awards (win prizes for discovering large prime numbers)
 * acorns as food (secondhand knowledge) and foraging -- but I have a good source on these
 * positive and negative liberty
 * some aspects of mass transit
 * Northampton, Massachusetts
 * Dwight Lyman Moody
 * aerial tissu
 * Jon Johansen
 * Daniel J. Bernstein
 * code is speech
 * Thomas Schelling, Daniel Ellsberg, and other Vietnam-era military strategists with a math/game theory background (apparently it was a pretty small world for them)
 * Pauline Trigère (fashion designer)
 * Reginald Scot/Discoverie of Witchcraft
 * Internet censorship, Great Firewall of China
 * collective action problem and prisoner's dilemma
 * Schelling Point
 * Eric von Hippel and user innovation
 * Bruce Lehman and the prehistory of the DMCA
 * Dance Dance Revolution
 * something about contemporary uses of the Latin language for communication, which could be called neolatin or modern Latin, although those terms are often used to refer simply to Latin after a particular historical period (not necessarily in the present day); maybe particular neolatinists like Andrew Gollan, Hans Oerberg, Nancy Llewellyn, and Father Reginald Foster.
 * something about counterfeit and watermarks and the CBCDG
 * EFF Pioneer Award winners (make sure there is at least a bio stub about each of them)
 * data retention
 * log anonymization
 * Marion Nestle, Food Guide Pyramid, sugar subsidies (once I understand these things a lot better)
 * Herborn, Comenius
 * CPTWG
 * analog hole
 * Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary (to parallel A Greek-English Lexicon)
 * mathematician and sculptor Helaman Ferguson
 * lamed-vov tzaddikim (there are at least two articles with different spellings that should be merged) and the book The Last of the Just
 * add Greek text, not just transliterations, to various pages that mention Greek etymology


 * parallelizability

plus a couple of things I have on my watchlist.

I'm interested in the left-wing/right-wing anarchism issue but rather afraid to wade into an ancient and bitter terminology/POV fight.

adapter from my Orkut page list of communities, here are some topics that I'm interested in that might be relevant to Wikipedia (there is some overlap with the list above):


 * Advogato
 * Aeneid
 * Animal Rights
 * Anonymity
 * Bay Area Rapid Transit
 * Berkeley
 * Book collecting
 * Boron
 * CCCP (California organization)
 * Code is speech
 * Command line
 * Constrained writing
 * Copyright reform
 * Creative Commons
 * Cryptography
 * CSUA (Berkeley)
 * CTY
 * Dance Dance Revolution
 * Dar Williams
 * Debian GNU/Linux
 * DEF CON
 * Digital Television
 * Electronic Frontier Foundation
 * Esperanto
 * FCC
 * Free Software
 * Gay Marriage
 * GNU
 * GnuPG
 * GNU Radio
 * Godspeed You! Black Emperor
 * HCSSiM
 * Hessen
 * Intellectual Property
 * INTJ (MBTI type)
 * Jorge Luis Borges
 * Latin language
 * Linux
 * Linuxcare
 * Linux Journal
 * LNX-BBC
 * Mao (game)
 * Martin Gardner
 * Mathematics
 * Mission District
 * Model M (keyboard)
 * Moxie
 * Mutt
 * MythTV
 * Need To Know (newsletter)
 * Nethack
 * Noe Venable
 * Northampton, Massachusetts
 * Northfield Mount Hermon
 * Ogg Vorbis
 * Peacefire (organization) -- see Peacefire
 * PGP
 * Pi
 * Public Knowledge (organization) -- see Public Knowledge
 * Python
 * Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) -- see Repetitive strain injury
 * Requiem
 * Rescomp (UC Berkeley) -- see Rescomp
 * Reverse engineering
 * Robotfindskitten
 * San Francisco
 * Separation of church and state
 * Set (game)
 * Slide rule
 * Smith College
 * SVLUG
 * Trusted computing
 * Umberto Eco
 * Veganism
 * Vegetarianism
 * Vi (text editor) -- see Vi
 * Youth rights