User:Puellanivis

Puella Nivis

This user is a female contributor.

This user is a Virgo.

羊

This user was born in the year of the Goat.

This user is a feminist.

This user supports equal rights for LGBT people.

This user is a Reichstag climbing patroller.

en

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

de-4

Dieser Benutzer hat Deutschkenntnisse auf muttersprachlichem Niveau.

eo-3

Ĉi tiu uzanto povas komuniki per alta aŭ flua nivelo de Esperanto.

ja-2

この利用者は中級の日本語ができます。

sv-2

Denna användare har kunskaper på mellannivå i svenska.

ase-2

This user can communicate at an intermediate level in American Sign Language.

es-1

Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.

fr-1

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

la-1

Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest.

zh-1

該用戶能以基本的中文進行交流。
该用户能以基本的中文进行交流。

ar-1

هذا المستخدم يتحدث اللغة العربية بمستوى مبتدئ.

ipa-3
ə

This user has an advanced understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.

C-4

This user is an expert C programmer.

asm-4

This user is an expert assembly language programmer.

Perl-4

This user is an expert Perl programmer.

HTML-4

This user is an expert HTML user.

PHP-3

This user is an advanced PHP programmer.

W3C

This user believes in compliance with W3C standards.

they

This user considers singular they standard English usage.

A, B, and C

This user prefers the serial comma.

Girl of the Snow

Snowgirl was already taken, and I have a special place in my heart for Latin, which I don't speak too well. My name is Cassondra, that's pronounced /kɑ-sɔn-drɑ/ in case you're wondering. (Yes, I'm aware that my American ears are ill-equipped to hear the difference in English, but I am still allowed to dictate the proper pronunciation of my name!)

My last name is quite uncommon in the US, and from Germanic origin, which is apparent from the "oe" in it. I often get asked how I pronounce it, and I tell them that the vowel is /oː/ not /eɪ/ like my parents say (it's a division in my family.) It is supposed to be pronounced: /ø/, which I occasionally tell people, and I've had an easier time getting Americans to produce /ø/ close enough that I can hear it correctly, than getting them to recognize the difference between /ɑ/ and /ɔ/

Linguistics

Cognitive Linguistics

What is language? How do we learn our native languages? Why are children so special that they can aquire languages so easily?

Language Aquisition

I'm a polyglot. I speak English, and German, with varying degrees of ability in American Sign Language, Japanese, Swedish, and Esperanto. I'm keen to learn new languages, and have studied bits and pieces of French, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Arabic, Russian, and more.

Comparative Linguistics

Well, I'm a polyglot, of course it's cool to think about, and study how languages are different. Perhaps this is the most interesting part about languages. Why does Polish use the instrumental case for the predicate in a copula sentence, instead of the nominative (especially when English Grammar Nazis are so insistent upon saying that since "am/are/is" is an equal sign, they should match case on both sides)? How do German genders for various words vary from Romantic genders? (el Sol, but die Sonne, and la Luna but der Mond, are the most apparent answers I have so far.)

Computers

Computational Linguistics

Were there any doubt? I love compilers, and all sorts of linguistic details in Computers. It facinates me. I've primarily used computers as an extension of my linguistic endeavors even though my degree is actually in Computers, and not in Linguistics. Just more money in Computers. ;)

Compiler Design/Implementation

I work a lot with compilers and parsers, and retrieving data, I'm not very much so interested in moving natural language processing closer, but yet in pushing the boundaries of regularized instructional languages. (Often known as programming languages) I've invented a few languages here and there, and written parsers for a great number of languages, scripts and assemblies, and each generation gets more and more advanced.

My primary interests are in the area of context-sensitivity, error recovery, etc. My biggest pet-peeve is "semicolon was expected." Well, if you expected it, and you knew where it was supposed to go, then why didn't you just warn me that it's not there, and continue on?

Biology

My interest in biology is very recent. I was never particularly interested in biology, until I came to the point where it were obvious that my biological anatomy does not match my internal identity. I'm now in the process of transitioning to be a female to the world, and while it has been, is, and will be a difficult road, I'm very much up for the challenge, mostly because I just totally didn't fit right in my "original" state.

Right now, I'm looking into the sexual hormones in humans, animals, and plants. I've been invited to contribute to the Estrogen articles, and I think I should be able to provide some good information there. :)

I've also been on anti-depressants for most of my life, and learned a lot about male Anorgasmia for a Sexual Health college class. Not just from research, but also from personal experience from the drug Zoloft (which I hear works great, but I had too many side-effects).

I have since developed latent autoimmune diabetes in adults, and have been on insulin therapy since 2016. It seems that perhaps during a particularly stressful moment of my life, it triggered an immune response, and my body picked up insulin as the target. I didn’t find out until a few months later, but I had the typical “cannot drink enough” symptom with accompanying high urine output that is not just characteristic of diabetes, but the actual named characteristic. My small foray into biology has helped me here identify a lot of details and mechanics behind how insulin-deficient diabetes works and affects the body.