User:Szyslak

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My name's Ben. As a Wikipedian, I'm really nothing special. All I do is fix typos, edit pages on useless pop culture topics and other wastes of time. I'm lazy, so I don't do anything useful. I have no featured articles and never will.

I'm named after this fictional character. This user page is UGLY. Could someone come along and fix it? Thanks.

[edit] About my sig

Wikipedia:Babel

en	This user is a native speaker of English.

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Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español.

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Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

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Hic usor simplice latinitate contribuere potest.

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

This user runs Mac OS X.

This user likes to use redundant userboxes that are redundant.

Q: What are those ugly characters in your sig? Why can't my browser display them properly?

A: In a homage to the great discipline of linguistics, my sig is an International Phonetic Alphabet transcription of my user name, with links to my talk and contribution pages written in "phonological feature notation":

[ +t, +c, +m, +e ]

Before November 9, 2005, I used the IPA template to generate the IPA characters while avoiding the Unicode display problems in Internet Exploder 6 for Windows and older browsers. I switched to an image because, at the time, I thought an image would be less of a drain on the servers than a template-generated signature. Talk page comments made before I changed to an image may not display properly in some older browsers and operating systems.

The special characters represent the following sounds:

ɪ: this small capital "I" represents the English "short I" sound, as in "bin."
æ: this symbol, the a-e ligature or "ash," stands for the English "short A," as in "hat."

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