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==Gigni de nihilo nihil, in nihilo nil posse reverti== | ==Gigni de nihilo nihil, in nihilo nil posse reverti== | ||
From this famous quote by the Roman poet and satirist | From this famous quote by the Roman poet and satirist Persius was derived my username. | ||
:'''yu.''' high school student from the tropical island of | :'''yu.''' high school student from the tropical island of Singapore.<br /> | ||
:would like to be intellectual some day. | :would like to be intellectual some day. | ||
Revision as of 07:35, 17 February 2006
Gigni de nihilo nihil, in nihilo nil posse reverti
From this famous quote by the Roman poet and satirist Persius was derived my username.
- yu. high school student from the tropical island of Singapore.
- would like to be intellectual some day.
Personal leanings
- Civil libertarian
- Affirmative action opponent
- Pro-choice on abortion
- Gay rights] advocate
- Minarchist], i.e. small-government advocate
- Social liberal
- Fiscal conservative
- Socialist (more British rather than French)
- but against welfare states
Recommendations
- Black Adder
Fields of interest
Historical linguistics and languages
- Development of the Germanic languages from Proto-Indo-European
- Grimm's law, Verner's law, High German consonant shift
- English as a glorified creole
- Genealogy of Japanese
- Relation of Japanese to Korean and the Altaic language family
- Relation of Japanese to the Austronesian languages
- Old and Middle Chinese
Politics and political science
- Liberalism
- Democratic Party
History
- European history
- French Revolution
- Russian history from the tsarist period to the 1917 Revolution
- Oriental history
- Chinese history from the Han dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period and from the Tang dynasty to the Qing dynasty
- Japanese history up till the Heian period and from the Edo period to the modern era
- The Korean Three Kingdoms period and Unified Silla
- Modern world history, especially from the Enlightenment period to the end of World War II