 | Tharthan is currently preoccupied with personal matters and will be using Wikipedia on an off-and-on basis. In addition, he is not particularly enthused with the direction that Wikipedia is heading in, so he may eventually stop using Wikipedia altogether. For reference, Tharthan's most recent edit was:
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| Majority ≠ right
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This user recognises that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.
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| Thou/Ye (or "You") | This user wants to restore clear second-person singular and second-person plural pronouns to English. This user is not fond of the prevalence (and over-use) of numerous arbitrary second-person plural pronouns that have been created because of the breakdown of the formerly clear situation. |
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mankind | This user supports the use of gender-neutral language when it reasonably exists as an alternative to a common gendered word. |
| snuk | This user says snuck. |
| "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. |
| its | This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is or it has). |
| than / then | This user understands the difference between using "than" and "then." |
| their / there / they're | This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling! |
| your/ you’re | This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you’re in need of help. |
| much & many | This user understands the difference between much & many. |
you one | This user knows that one should not use "you" in encyclopedia articles or other formal works. |
y'all | This user thinks that y'all serves not as a second-person plural pronoun, but rather as a confusing and ambiguous second-person pronoun, and as such would prefer to see it disappear from the English language entirely. |
| This user's style of spelling resembles the standard used throughout the Commonwealth of Nations more so than it does any other spelling standard for the English language. However, this user takes a number of factors into account when spelling a word—particularly, its etymology. |
| SI-0 | This user thinks that the metric system is unnecessary and antitraditionalistic. |
| ft-lb-oz-°F | This user prefers US customary units. |
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| LGI | This user prefers Luigi. |
| P | This user is very fond of most main series games in the Pokémon series. |
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Hello, I am Tharthan (IPA: [θɑːɹθən]). I hail from "New England", a region in the northeastern United States of America (though, I would prefer if you would refrain from referring to me as an "American" if possible, as I associate more with New England than I do the entirety of the United States of America. "New Englander" is much more preferable.) The dialects of English that are spoken in New England differ quite a bit from the speech, spelling and wordstock of other North American English dialects. I personally speak a Southeastern New England dialect of English, though idiolectally I lack the wine-whine merger. In addition, I maintain a partial lack of the horse-hoarse merger, I realise /ʊ/ as something close to /ɵ/, I realise /ʌ/ as something close to /ɐ/), I realise /ɑ/ as something in between /ɑ/ and /ä/ (/ɑ̈/?), I have no /a/ phoneme (except maybe in the /aʊ/ diphthong); /æ/ takes its place, and I sometimes realise /ɒ/ as (my) "/ʌ/".
In addition to all of the above, I am a linguistic purist. This impacts me to the extent that I may opt for the use of loan translations from and/or English cognates (if they are close enough in meaning) of words in other Germanic languages (for example, I would prefer "ice bear" over "polar bear") over Latinates (unless the Latinates were present in Old English). That said, I may use a word derived from Latin that is ultimately Germanic in origin (for example: "seize"), or use back-formations/other derivations of words derived from Latin that are of Germanic origin if I find the general word in question to have too much of a Latin influence (for example, I won't use "burglar", but I may use "burgle", I won't use "mushroom", but I will use blends or the like that are prefixed with "mush-" in reference to mushrooms). However, much of the aforementioned doesn't apply to my Wikipedia contributions, but rather to other things that I do, like my poetry.
My contributions to Wikipedia are mostly in the fields of linguistics, history, and folklore, although I also sometimes improve word definitions, make spelling and grammar fixes, insert etymologies into articles, remove blatant lies from articles, and a few other things.
I am much more active on Wiktionary, where I contribute to New England dialectal pronunciation, word etymology, dialectal wordstock (regarding all languages), translation improvement (regarding all languages), word definition improvement, blatant lie removal, grammar fixes, and also (occasionally) the discussion of linguistic oddities and queries on talk pages.
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