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Travelling armchair linguist.

Never studied in an institution but read books and web with probably more breadth than depth.

Always on the road surviving in a strange foreign language. Currently in Thailand on my way to Laos where I hope to improve my Lao.

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Would questions about writing systems be off-topic?
Sep 13, 2011
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Psycholinguistics or psychology of language? On or off topic?
Oct 4, 2011
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Should we make questions about specific syntax trees off topic?
Mar 25, 2014
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Overlap of Linguistics site vs the Languages site proposal vs individual Language & Usage sites and proposals
Sep 24, 2011
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Which etymology questions should be within or topic scope?
Sep 29, 2011
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7
What linguistics problems stump our best answerers: A challenge
Oct 7, 2011
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How should we format glosses on linguistics.SE?
Sep 13, 2011
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Pro-tem moderator nominations
Sep 23, 2011
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What would be a good tag for questions of the type "Are there languages with XYZ?"
Oct 5, 2011
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Real linguists, please feel free to boldly improve our tagging
Sep 21, 2011
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OK we're all adults here, so really, how on earth should I use a squat toilet?
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Build and strengthen the Stack Exchange community with "crossover questions" between sites
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Are Indians as pushy to one another as they appear to be to Westerners?
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When should I use jQuery deferred's "then" method and when should I use the "pipe" method?
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What are the differences between じ and ぢ, and ず and づ?

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