User:Babbage

I have been here since 2003, but I cultivate beginner’s mind.

I have a terrible habit of using curly quotes, it’s a character flaw.

Current Project

All things Julius Platzmann

here's my scratch file on him:

And one on dom Pedro II’s tutor,

TODOs

• User:Babbage/Fauquier_White_Sulphur_Springs

things to improve

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votic_languages - references
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Pinart - much weirdness here

To translate

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Barbas_do_Imperador

To Translate

• es:Zapatón (territorio indígena)
• es:Idioma Itoto Majun

Bios of linguists

Native American linguists

Graphics and maps

• File:Chibchan languages map.svg
• File:SKIP Kanji method examples.svg
• Languages of Bhutan.
  Languages of Bhutan.
• Pre-contact distribution of native languages of California.
  Pre-contact distribution of native languages of California.
• Salinan language.
  Salinan language.
• Pomoan languages.
  Pomoan languages.
• Montana Indian Reservations.
  Montana Indian Reservations.
• California Geomorphic Provinces.
  California Geomorphic Provinces.
• Tibetan script.
  Tibetan script.
• Ohlone languages.
  Ohlone languages.
• Maiduan languages.
  Maiduan languages.
• Ethiopia Harar map (Amharic)
  Ethiopia Harar map (Amharic)
• Maya script reading direction.
  Maya script reading direction.

The other problem there is that building out the phonology charts is a HUGE PAIN IN THE NECK. I have no idea how people can stand to produce those things without some sort of tool. I guess people start with existing charts & edit those, but there has _got_ to be a better way.

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Native_languages_of_California

translations i did

From Portuguese

• IBOPE
• Teresina
• Enéas Carneiro
• Padre Anchieta Foundation
• Luís da Câmara Cascudo
• Seu Creysson
• Sousas
• Camelô
• Lia Wyler
• António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro
• Palácio da Regaleira
• Casas Bahia
• Festa do Peão de Boiadeiro
• São Domingos do Capim
• Piracema
• Tião Viana
• Itautec
• Giovanni Gazzinelli
• Giuseppe Cilento
• Elon Lages Lima‎
• Grupo de Operações Especiais (Brazil)
• ABNT
• Guaíra (São Paulo)
• Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
• Brazilian Linguistics Association

From Spanish

• Ferdinand Eisenstein
• Hernán Rivera Letelier
• Dora Manchado

From French

• Île Verte (Grenoble)
• Touré Kunda
• Ilakaka

stuff i started

I keep this list so I can occasionally see if someone has made an improvement to an article I started.

• Seger Ellis jazz pianist
• Naked Eyes bad 80s band
• Takako Minekawa musician
• Kawaiisu language
• Mary Haas linguist
• LaVerne Jeanne linguist
• Hassan al-Turabi politico
• William Strachey mr tempest
• W. O. Ayres fish aficionado (an afishanado?)
• Birds of America (book) big expensive bird book
• Zubizuri a little bridge in Bilbao
• Language Bank
• Building 20
• Elizabeth Blair Lee
• Glosas Emilianenses
• Utendi wa Tambuka
• David Appleyard Ethiopianist
• Birhor language
• Ellavina Perkins Navajo linguist
• Paul Platero Navajo linguist
• Lucio and Simplicio Godina
• Washington Matthews
• Wheeler Hall
• Henry Voth
• Fort Stevenson
• Fort Rice
• Hidatsa language
• Logba people
• Lake Fianga
• Stalin (1992 film)
• The !!!! Beat
• Parecis plateau
• Zelus (genus)
• Ain't That a Kick in the Head?
• Malgudi Subha
• Center for Applied Linguistics
• Île Verte (Grenoble)
• Île Verte
• Aggavamsa
• Roger Anger
• Martinus Thomsen
• Passiflora actinia
• Meade Roberts
• Ogba language
• Itacarezinho Beach
• Touré Kunda
• Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
• Doris McLemore
• Laienspiegel
• Gaustadt
• Bronbeek
• SS Ideal-X
• Port of Durban
• New Classical Adventure
• Martin Haselböck
• North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics
• David Appleyard
• Brazilian Linguistics Association
• Lucian Scherman
• Paul Platero
• Ellavina Perkins
• Michael Radulescu
• Theodore B. Fernald
• Tunica (language)
• Peter Tetteroo
• Desmond C. Derbyshire
• Birds of America (book)
• Rui Costa Pimenta
• John Ohala
• Petty Harbour
• Hassan Kazemi Qumi
• Ain't That A Kick In The Head?
• Loretta Kelsey
• Tony_Tillohash
• Canelo,_Arizona
• Edwin_Benson
• Survey_of_California_and_Other_Indian_Languages
• Andrew_Garrett_(linguist)
• Hidatsa_language
• Fort_Rice
• Fort_Stevenson
• Henry_Voth
• Wheeler_Hall
• Washington_Matthews
• Lucio_and_Simplicio_Godina
• Sally Noble
• William Shipley (linguist)
• Robert Heizer
• Samuel Barrett
• Mount Pleasant Classical Institute

articles of which i am fond to an utterly absurd degree

• Acorn Park
• Indian Rock Park
• Washington Matthews
• Abraham M. Halpern

language stuff

• Portal:Language
• The Spanish Translation of the Week
• meta:Translation of the week
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Endangered_languages whoa, cool
• User:AlexNewArtBot/LinguisticsSearchResult really interesting bot that looks for new articles related to linguistics
• Category:Translation_requests not specified by language, hmm. still, simpler than the request board...

languagey people on Wikipedia

For my future perusal...

· User:Taivo · User:Mark Dingemanse · User:Kwamikagami · User:CJLL Wright · User:Ish ishwar · User:Miskwito ·

notes to self

hello, self

Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia Help:User_style

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babbage/monobook.css

my bookshelf

The new Pediapress book functionality is really fun. Here's my bookshelf

critical trivia

The first edit I made was adding an and. ☺

old stuff

• User:Babbage/Archive