User:Denihilonihil

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

Conlangs

Ilethes

Arophanic language family

The table below lists the genealogy of the largest Arophanic languages in Ilethes today.

Arophanic languages
Proto-Arophanic
Arithidic languages									Sypric languages
Proto-Arithidic									Proto-Sypric
Old Herallian	Ancient Arithide								Old Sypric		Torugian
									Syprian	Basson
	Classical Arithide
	(Classical Arithide)	Koine Arithide			Lazeic languages
					Old Lazeic
		Middle Arithide			Late Lazeic			Old Hyrrgonian
Herallian					Lezina		Old Vethudic	Hyrrgonian
		Modern Arithide	Charian	Docau	Litsena	Samecian	Vethudic

Hesperidian language family

Named after the daughters of Hesperus in Roman mythology in English, the corresponding name of this language family in Dethric, Erespha, is the god that governs the setting of the sun in Dethrian lore.

(genealogy tba)

Lytho-Grisic language family

(genealogy tba)

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