User:Tony1 - Revision history

Tony1: external link

2011-05-22T13:32:29Z

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Tony1: ah, now the signature works

2011-05-22T13:30:46Z

ah, now the signature works

Tony1: A bit about me and language

2011-05-22T13:29:45Z

A bit about me and language

Wohlgemuth: Created page with 'User:Tony1'

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-<DIV class="plainlink">I'm a research and editorial consultant, and specialise in helping academics in a range of fields to prepare their applications for competitive research funding; mostly this is in the physical sciences, not my home area. My linguistic interests mostly lie in Halliday's systemic functional grammar. I haven't come here with a partisan agenda, though, and I don't know anyone else on this site (yet). I'm also keenly interested in comparative linguistics. To be modest, I'd describe myself as a well-informed amateur in both areas.
+I'm a research and editorial consultant, and specialise in helping academics in a range of fields to prepare their applications for competitive research funding; mostly this is in the physical sciences, not my home area. My linguistic interests mostly lie in Halliday's systemic functional grammar. I haven't come here with a partisan agenda, though, and I don't know anyone else on this site (yet). I'm also keenly interested in comparative linguistics. To be modest, I'd describe myself as a well-informed amateur in both areas.
 I've written a suite of writing exercises that mainly concern grammatical issues, aimed at editors of the English Wikipedia. My next challenge is to write a "Comma workshop" and a tutorial page for non-native speakers on the use of "the" and "a"—a great bugbear for all but those who come from a few closely related languages.
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 As a member of Wikimedia Australia, I'm exploring the potential for finding collaborators who are in a position to make audio recordings of fast-vanishing Indigenous Australian languages. All I see at the moment is a bit of lexical stuff—almost nothing about grammar. It's urgent that we do something before the native speakers die out.
-My real name is Tony Souter. I live in Sydney. My en.WP page is [here]. [[User:Tony1|<font color="darkgreen">'''Tony'''</font >]] [[User talk:Tony1|<font color="darkgreen">(talk)</font >]] 13:30, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
+My real name is Tony Souter. I live in Sydney. My en.WP page is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tony1 here]. [[User:Tony1|<font color="darkgreen">'''Tony'''</font >]] [[User talk:Tony1|<font color="darkgreen">(talk)</font >]] 13:30, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

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 As a member of Wikimedia Australia, I'm exploring the potential for finding collaborators who are in a position to make audio recordings of fast-vanishing Indigenous Australian languages. All I see at the moment is a bit of lexical stuff—almost nothing about grammar. It's urgent that we do something before the native speakers die out.
-My real name is Tony Souter. I live in Sydney. My en.WP page is [here]. [[User:Tony1|&#91;&#91;User:Tony1&#124;&lt;font color=&quot;darkgreen&quot;&gt;&#39;&#39;&#39;Tony&#39;&#39;&#39;&lt;/font &gt;&#93;&#93; &#91;&#91;User talk:Tony1&#124;&lt;font color=&quot;darkgreen&quot;&gt;(talk)&lt;/font &gt;&#93;&#93;]] 13:29, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
+My real name is Tony Souter. I live in Sydney. My en.WP page is [here]. [[User:Tony1|<font color="darkgreen">'''Tony'''</font >]] [[User talk:Tony1|<font color="darkgreen">(talk)</font >]] 13:30, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
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−	User:Tony1	+	<DIV class="plainlink">I'm a research and editorial consultant, and specialise in helping academics in a range of fields to prepare their applications for competitive research funding; mostly this is in the physical sciences, not my home area. My linguistic interests mostly lie in Halliday's systemic functional grammar. I haven't come here with a partisan agenda, though, and I don't know anyone else on this site (yet). I'm also keenly interested in comparative linguistics. To be modest, I'd describe myself as a well-informed amateur in both areas.
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		+	I've written a suite of writing exercises that mainly concern grammatical issues, aimed at editors of the English Wikipedia. My next challenge is to write a "Comma workshop" and a tutorial page for non-native speakers on the use of "the" and "a"—a great bugbear for all but those who come from a few closely related languages.
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		+	As a member of Wikimedia Australia, I'm exploring the potential for finding collaborators who are in a position to make audio recordings of fast-vanishing Indigenous Australian languages. All I see at the moment is a bit of lexical stuff—almost nothing about grammar. It's urgent that we do something before the native speakers die out.
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		+	My real name is Tony Souter. I live in Sydney. My en.WP page is [here]. [[User:Tony1\|[[User:Tony1\|<font color="darkgreen">'''Tony'''</font >]] [[User talk:Tony1\|<font color="darkgreen">(talk)</font >]]]] 13:29, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
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