User:Denihilonihil
Gigni de nihilo nihil, in nihilo nil posse reverti
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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
[edit]- 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
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Fields of interest
[edit]- 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
- 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
[edit]- Translations of high-quality Wikipedia articles in other languages to English where the English version is not up-to-mark
- Spelling, punctuation and grammar: copyediting
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