User:Aluion
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Aluion, editcountitis free since 2003.
(Actually, I was anonymously editcountitis free since 2001, but 2001 wouldn't rhyme and doesn't sound as catchy.)
[edit] Wikibreak
I have been on a Wikibreak since the beginning of the year, but had just thought of actually posting about it, so I'm still recieving messages on my talk page.
As a side note, if you want me to translate some text, and as long as it isn't more than a paragraph long, then simply post it on my talk page, and I will post the translation on yours. At the very least, please link to the actual text in some way. It prevents me from having to ask what language it is in or whether it is a language I actually can read, and allows me to get to the task of actually translating it.
You can also click on that "E-mail this user" link over there. I don't mind. Just make sure to put "Wikipedia" or something in the subject line. I can translate nearly anything. The languages on the babel listing only encompass the ones that I speak; e.g: I can read Hausa, but I can not hold a conversation in it. I provide no guarantee, however, that I did not mix up, say, the English word psycho with the Japanese word saikou or something.
Oh, and I just downloaded a Wikipedia database dump on to my laptop, which is quite possibly the most handy thing one can have on a laptop that doesn't have wireless internet access (Provided, of course, you have the space for it.)
Now, I'll never struggle trying to remember what a grouping of cats is called, or exactly what date Hungary became a republic, not to mention the origins of the Cappuccino or the lyrics of To Anacreon in Heaven.
[edit] Origin of Aluion
Aluion is a Metasyntactic variable I use in BASIC and C++ programming. It's also what I chose for a username on serveral websites and instant messsaging programs. Due to the relative lack of people using random but somewhat pronounciable characters as usernames, it generally is not taken as a username, so I do not have to add several numbers at the end of it.
It should be pronounced ah LU yon, not alu i on. Many people have 'mispronounced' it while in voice chat.
[edit] Langauge
I have studied several languages, and have amassed some knowledge about various ones, some of them not mentioned on my Babel listing (those that I only know basic sentences from). I have even experimented in making my own language, which now has it's own MediaWiki project (not affiliated or to be confused with WikiMedia), which I will not be listing here.
Given all of this, I still prefer that people write messages to me here using English. This is the English Wikipedia, after all, and English is probably the most..ah..interesting language I've studied.
