Leftmostcat

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en This user is a native speaker of English. ga-3 Tá ard-Ghaeilge ag an úsáideoir seo. de-2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse. ja-2 この利用者はある程度の日本語ができます。 fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français. nn-1 Denne brukaren har litt kjennskap til nynorsk. ang-1 Þes nēotend cann hine seolf mid grundlicgendre mǣþe Englisces ferian. sga-1 Attá foglaimm bunaid inna Sen-Goídilce ocin scríbnid se.
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I am Leftmost Cat. I hold baccalaureate degrees in mathematics and linguistics, with interest especially in the Celtic languages (and especially again in Irish), the Germanic languages, morphology, syntax and both historical and computational linguistics, or in any area where one of those meets another. I speak with the General American dialect, with the Mary-marry-merry, cot-caught and wine-whine mergers. Pronunciations I add will undoubtedly reflect this. My casual register likely reflects my origins in Montana, but this shouldn't show up in my contributions.

What I'm Doing

• Whimsically adding translations in one of the languages in my Babel box
• Trying to work up the moxie to add full entries for Irish
• Clearing out the Irish requests
• Occasionally thinking of an English idiom or word I ought to add

What I Should Be Doing

• by one's lights
• all over hell and gone / to hell and gone / the hell and gone
• fair few
• thing is
• sea legs (metaphorical sense)
• Cleaning up Irish templates

What I've Done That It Doesn't Say I've Done

• Two contributions from 69.144.3.42
• Ten contributions from 83.70.178.115
• Six contributions from 72.174.130.229

What Else Is There?

• /Sandbox