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Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:04 am
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I have been lurking for a few days, and have concluded it is high time I step out from the shadows and make an introduction here to my guild mates. I made a general introduction in the open forums, however it seems reasonable to do so once again for the benefit of the people whom I have chosen to align myself.
I enjoy words and language, though I have a tendency of misusing some of the more obscure bits of English, but I will not apologise for this particular quirk. While I speak only English, and poorly compared to educated Americans and most foreigners who have learned the language through years of schooling, I am fond of picking up a smattering of things in a variety of languages.
I can thank people in somewhere around a dozen languages, though it takes me time to recall them all when requested to demonstrate this particular lingual feat. Additionally, I can say 'strawberry' in Spanish or Japanese, and all manner of equally unhelpful odd words ranging from Spanish and other European tongues through Japanese and some dialect of Arabic or other.
I have traversed the continent of North America, largely focused in the contingent United States, having lived in the Northwest, Southwest and Northeast at brief periods over the course of my years. I hope in the future to find myself crossing Europe, improving my rather lazy grasp of German or learning another language competently enough to converse in something other than my native English.
I am enthralled by tea, and will happily discuss the virtues of gunpowder and Ti Kwan Yin over Earl Grey and Darjeeling, or share my thoughts on which are best served with milk or lemon.
Incidentally... I am neither educated traditionally nor an autodidact, and will openly admit that I haven't the slightest inkling about much of what I find myself speaking on. However, I do enjoy engaging in conversation in which I may feign the life of an erudite or sybarite. Please do not feel I am trying to be superior, it is mostly for my own comfort that I cloak myself in such intellectual obfuscation.
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Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:10 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:18 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:22 pm
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 2:49 pm
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:20 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 4:40 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 6:04 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:23 am
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:28 am
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:28 am
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