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Babbage

Joined 9 November 2003

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

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Want to work on an article on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbage/Monteverde_Institute

Finally published Fauquier White Sulphur Springs after mumble years. still needs work.

All things Julius Platzmann

here's my scratch file on him:

User:Babbage/Julius_Platzman

User:Babbage/Cumanagoto


And one on dom Pedro II’s tutor,

User:Babbage/Karl_Henning


User:Babbage/Bibliography of lenguas generales

TODOs

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things to improve

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To translate

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

To Translate

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Bios of linguists

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User:Babbage/Bios of linguists

Native American linguists


Graphics and maps

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    Languages of Bhutan.
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    Pre-contact distribution of native languages of California.
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    Salinan language.
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    Pomoan languages.
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    Montana Indian Reservations.
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    California Geomorphic Provinces.
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    Tibetan script.
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    Ohlone languages.
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    Maiduan languages.
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    Ethiopia Harar map (Amharic)
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    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

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From Portuguese

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From Spanish

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From French

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stuff i started

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

articles of which i am fond to an utterly absurd degree

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categories i started

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Category:Earliest_known_manuscripts_by_language

Category:Writing systems without word boundaries

language stuff

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languagey people on Wikipedia

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For my future perusal...

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

notes to self

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hello, self

Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia Help:User_style

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

my bookshelf

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

critical trivia

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The first edit I made was adding an and. ☺

  This user is a Buddhist.


old stuff

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9 August 2025
Plus a mysterious CheckUser incident, and the news with Wikinews.
A review of June, July and August.
Who is this guy?
Threads since June.
And slop.
It's not a conlang, it's a crossword puzzle.
gang aft agley, an' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, for promis'd joy!
Everybody's Somebody's Fool.
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by the American civil rights movement activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. In the speech, which was delivered to more than 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., King called for civil and economic rights and an end to legalized racism in the United States. He noted the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, which declared millions of slaves free, but said that "one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free". The speech is regarded as one of the most famous moments of the civil rights movement and among the most iconic speeches in American history. This photograph, from the collection of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, shows King shortly after concluding his speech, waving to the crowd assembled around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The Washington Monument is visible in the background.Photograph credit: unknown
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