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Until I retired in November 2013 I was a research administrator at the [http://ldc.upenn.edu Linguistic Data Consortium] of the [http://www.upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania]. I sometimes style myself
:''Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody''
I am still interested in languages, as well as folk music, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/filk filk music], science fiction, and other things. Including the family cat.

I wrote my dissertation on [[American Sign Language]] (Ph.D. in Linguistics, [http://www.berkeley.edu University of California at Berkeley]), and I've studied lots more languages to a greater or lesser degree. Languages I've worked with in recent years* include [[Thai language|Thai]], [[Tagalog]], [[Pashto]], [[Tigrinya]], Moroccan [[Berber_languages|Berber]], [[Yoruba language|Yoruba]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]], and [[Urdu]]. I also developed and maintained the LDC's [http://lrwiki.ldc.upenn.edu/ Language Resource Wiki].

I'm [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thnidu Thnidu] on Wikipedia, where I've been editing since September 2005.

<nowiki>*</nowiki> But do not speak or write.

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Mark Mandel: Created page with "Until I retired in November 2013 I was a research administrator at the [http://ldc.upenn.edu Linguistic Data Consortium] of the [http://www.upenn.edu University of Pennsylvani..."