Hello there, I am It's-is-not-a-genitive, named due to my intolerance for incorrect apostrophes, or (ˈɑndʀiɛtˈpsɑʀiʃ) in real life, which I add out of intrigue for those boxes. Having lived in the English midlands for some years, I now reside in Lleida, Catalonia, though I will soon be going out on a six-month visit to New Caledonia. I work by day as a sociolinguist, specialising in phonology and society. I work by night as a voracious writer, artist, musician, comic, actor/director with a bit of an Orson Welles complex, the whole curious gamut.
I have been contributing to Wikipedia on this account since May 2005, although I contributed to Wikipedia from quite a long time before this through the means of a string of IP accounts. Over time, I have submitted quite a number of articles, either on areas of personal study or interest, or by means of translating them, which has often ended up with me learning quite a bit about new subjects. As an old-fashioned polymath with boundless curiosity and a restless mind, Wikipedia is a natural home for me, and I often love to delve into it hours at a time, exploring the sometimes obscure.
Over here I do a lot of copyediting, some of which worsens my mental health, and I also do a lot of translations - ones that have been requested, if I can get my mitts on them first, and ones that have not but that I consider worthy when browsing another language Wikipedia. I am committed to the eradication of common spelling mistakes and of 'it's' when misused instead of 'its,' something which gets my blood boiling. I am also firmly behind the replacement of horrid and often inaccurate 'phonetic' transcription with the true phonetic system, the IPA, both of which I will almost definitely talk about later.
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