User:Steinbach
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Formerly known as Caesarion. I am chiefly active on the Limburgic, and Zeelandic Wikipedias. I just to be quite active on the Dutch Wikipedia as well.
Hi, I am Wouter Steenbeek, otherwise Steinbach, a 1984 musicology student and language geek from the Netherlands. Despite my obsessive passion for languages, I am afraid my English is not good enough to be very active on the English Wikipedia. I feel like a piano player with gloves when I have to express myself in this language. Nevertheless, I did make some contributions here, including five new articles: Zeelandic, Martinus Nijhoff, status constructus, Big Hole, and Rusenu language, largely just because I missed them and only the first and the last as a part of my expertise/core field of interest. My very first edit to any wiki, done in late December 2004 under an IP number, was also to the English Wikipedia. Recently I have become a little more confident about my English, which may result in more contributions.
[edit] Well these are languages...
...so unbelievably complicated that I couldn't have conceived them myself! And which anyone should learn (it will only take a few years to master its basic principles):
- ǃXóõ language - a language with a phoneme inventory of about 100 sounds
- Tsez language - a language with tens of cases and numerous other grammatical features. It rocks!
And also pretty cool:
- Ancient Greek language
- Arabic language
- Chukchi language
- Finnish language
- Gothic language
- Latin language
- Navajo language
- Russian language
- Tocharian languages
Yes, I like declension.
[edit] Beliefs
- I am fully incompetent to write in English. Please don't be too surprised about my broken English here on en:. After all, I'm chiefly active on other Wikipedias.
- The English Wikipedia may be the richest in content but not the best. That distinction goes to the German Wikipedia. But I use the English Wikipedia a lot anyway.
- Inclusionist tendencies are all too present on en:. I do not identify as a deletionist, but I may be close, especially form an en: point of view.
- User pages are not weblogs, neither are they homepages. I used to be opposed to the use of userboxes, but my opposition has weakened considerably, especially since the German userbox solution was adopted. The Dutch solution might be even better: one generic DIY userbox template. I employed it here. Anyway, what you should avoid are userboxes that reveal anything about your opinions and beliefs, whether political, religious or otherwise. Your beliefs are completely irrelevant to Wikipedia (or at least they should be) and the only thing these electronic bumpers can possibly do is irritating other people. So they only make matters worse.
- Inglish speling shud be rifôrmd rædikalli.
