User:CanonLawJunkie/Userboxes/Archive/Historical Interests

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Languages/Grammar

English

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

en-us-user64Like 64% of native English speakers, this user speaks American English.

en-∞	This user speaks English at a godlike level.

en-us
-5This user can contribute at a professional level of American English.

UKThis user uses British English.

Latin

la-2Hic usor media latinitate contribuere potest.

ec la-2This user is learning Ecclesiastical Latin.

French

fr-1This user can read basic Français but has difficulty writing or speaking it.

fr-1Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

Grammatical Opinions

A, B and CThis user prefers not to use the serial comma.

A, B, and
A and BThis user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing.

than
thenThis user understands the difference between using "than" and "then."

their
there
they'reThis user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

byThe passive voice may be used by this user.

WeThis user refers to themselves in the majestic plural.

to
too
twoThis user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.

its & it'sThis user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.

its
it'sIt's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.

who(m)This user uses either who or whom in the object case.

man-
kindRegarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular, not what is politically correct.

Ain't

This user believes that ain't is a proper word to use in place of a contraction of a verb and a pronoun. Ain't that right?

couldn't'veThis user believes that couldn't've would make a perfectly fine word.

ubiquitousThis user feels that if a person cannot concisely describe what they mean without using so-called big words, then they should not be identified as being truly intelligent.

’sThi'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.

…in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with.

“…”This user favors curly quotation marks over straight style.

. TheThis user does not put two spaces after a full stop.

.  TheThis user believes sentence spacing is a style choice, not a law.

a lot alotThis user recognizes that linguistic change is a natural and desirable aspect of human language.

Speakers Know Best

This user recognizes that grammar comes from humans, not from the heavens. Trust native speakers.

This user knows that because English is a living language, grammar and syntax are not fixed.

majority
≠
ad populum fallacyAlthough this user acknowledges the logical fallacy ad populum, they do not think that it applies to human language, and recognise that the majority determines grammatical "right" and "wrong".

Majority Usage
=
Correct GrammarThis user recognizes that if most people make the same grammatical "mistake", it ceases to be a mistake and becomes proper grammar, for grammar has no immutable or moral "right" or "wrong" and "correct grammar" is determined by majority usage.

you oneThis user knows that one should not use "you" in encyclopedia articles or other formal works.

’sThis user realises that plural nouns should not have an apostrophe while possessive words should!

English Singulars: "The data is..."

This user recognizes that "data", "media", and "agenda" have become incorporated into English as singular nouns.

much & manyThis user understands the difference between much & many.

which
thatThis user typically uses "which" and "that" interchangeably.

Comic SansThis user refuses to take seriously anything written in the Comic Sans font.

 

Historical Interests

NOTE: The times I've divided the userboxes into are not universally agreed upon and so I've divided them the way I think of History. 476 AD is the traditional date of the "Fall of the Roman Empire" and, in my eyes, the end of late antiquity. In 1733, John Kay invented the "Flying Shuttle," launching the Industrial Revolution in the United Kindom. This is when I think of the beginning of the Modern World, at least in the West. You may want to divide things differently on your userpage. Canon Law Junkie §§§ Talk 16:29, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Ancient History (BC-476 AD)

This user is interested in ancient Rome.

This user is interested in Ancient Rome.

This user is interested in the life and times of Julius Caesar.

This user is interested in the Roman Empire.

This user is interested in Carthage.

This user is interested in
Human Prehistory

This user is interested in
ancient civilizations.

This user is interested in
Ancient Egypt.

This user is interested in Ancient Greece.

This user is interested in Pre-Islamic Arab civilizations.

This user is interested in
Archeology

This user is interested in classical mythology.

This user is interested in
Ancient Israel.

Medieval History (477-1732)

This user is interested in the Early, High and Late Middle Ages.

This user is interested in the Byzantine Empire.

1066	This user is interested in the Norman Conquest.

This user is interested in the Habsburg Empire.

This user is interested in the history of the Holy Roman Empire.

This user is interested in the British Empire.

This user is interested in the history of the English Civil Wars.

This user realizes that people from the Middle Ages already thought that the Earth was spherical.

This user is interested in the Ottoman Empire

This user is interested in the Mongol Empire.

This user is interested in the Crusades.

This user is interested in the Baroque period.

This user is interested in the Renaissance period.

This user is interested in the Portuguese Empire.

Modern History (1733-Present)

This user is interested in the French Revolution.

This user is interested in the Napoleonic Wars, Empire and Era.

This user is interested in counter-terrorism.

This user is interested in the
Russian Revolution.

This user is interested in the
Russian Civil War.

This user is interested in World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945).

This user is interested in the Portuguese Colonial War.

This user is interested in the Victorian period.

This user is interested in the history of the Cold War.

American History

This user is interested in the United States.

This user is interested in
the history of the United States.

This user is interested in the
American Civil War.

This user is interested in the
Confederate States Navy.

This user is interested in the Salem Witch Trials.

This user is interested in the American Revolutionary War.

 

General

This user is interested in history.

This user is a history buff.

This user is interested in military history.

This user is interested in naval warfare.

Christian History

This user is interested in the
history of Christianity.

This user is interested in the Spanish missions in California.

This user is interested in the history of the papacy.

This user likes
St. Thomas Aquinas.

This user knows that Pope Pius XII may have saved 700,000 lives during World War II.

Continental Histories

This user is interested in the History of Latin America.

This user is interested in the
History of Africa.

National Histories

This user is interested in the history of the
Papal States/Vatican City State.

This user is interested in the History of France.

This user is interested in the history of Germany.

This user is interested in the history of the lands comprising the United Kingdom.

This user is interested in
Russian history.

This user is interested in the history of the struggle against apartheid.

This user is interested in the anti-apartheid struggle.