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My name is Paul, and I don't want to be President of anything. Ever.
Right, now we have that cleared up...
There is neither name nor title on the door to my office. I don't have the luxury of a door to my office - which means one less thing to bump into when I'm distracted by some wonderful literary discovery combined with the need for more coffee. **update** I now have a door to my office. I bump into it regularly.
Coffee? Did someone say coffee?
Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1973. Grew up (did I ever?) in rural Victoria and coastal Tasmania. Addicted to academic study, I've done tertiary coursework in pretty much all of my passionate interests now, with the exception of Collingwood Football Club and Wimbledon:
Without doubt, my greatest passion is music. My masters thesis looked at the application of compositional and performance techniques from music and how they could be analogously deployed in the creation of fiction. But apart from that, I just love quality fiction. And music of many genres. And I write neo-formalist poetry (yes, I admit it).
I have spent about half of my life to date in Australia and half in Europe, in various countries. Have you ever heard of dividing one's time? I did it. It sucks.
My career has been as widely varied as my studies suggest, including work for the Church of England, a period as a headhunter, several years as a university lecturer, running a wine bar, network administration, programming, teaching, journalism, translating, interpreting, book editing and composing music. In ever-varying ratios, these activities have generally kept the wine, cheese and books coming in sufficient quantities.
Private life? Yes please, but it doesn't need to be here.
I think I've covered them above.
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| ¶ | This user is a professional editor. |
 | This user enjoys reading poetry. |
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a lot alot | This user recognizes that linguistic change is a natural and desirable aspect of human language. |
After having | Having learnt to appreciate good grammar, this user thinks that After is a superflous prefix. |
| ubiquitous ≠ widespread | This user asserts that the more common word is often not the most precise. |
| snk | This user says he/she/it sneaked and they snuck. |
| who(m) | This user uses either who or whom in the object case. |
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he or she | This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage. |
try and
try to | This user tries to discourage usage of "try and". |
| …in. | Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with. |
| You and Me | This user thinks that if you believe it is incorrect to use "you and me" as the object of a sentence, a little talk needs to be had by you and me... |
| "There's" with a plural subject | This user knows that "there's" with a plural subject is a pervasive grammatical error. There's There are too many people making this mistake. Don't be one of them. |
| English Singulars: "The data is..."
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This user recognizes that "data", "media", and "agenda" have become incorporated into English as singular nouns.
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| , | This user fixes commas that separate verb from subject or that separate two verbs or verbal phrases in a compound predicate. |
A, B, and
A and B | This user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing. |
| ’s | Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. |
| ; | This user knows how to use a semicolon correctly. |
| ; | This user's favorite punctuation is semicolons; he likes using them a lot. |
 | This user thinks good grammar is sexy. |
 | This user employs a more formal style of writing in articles than in talk pages. |
 | This user plays the piano. |
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This user likes most types of music.
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