User:Yst
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[edit] Who am I?
Somewhat unintuitively, the chief area of expertise and knowledge which presently I bring to Wikipedia is that of Old English language, linguistics, history and poetry. That's unintuitive, as it has absolutely nothing to do with my present work, academic or otherwise. However, it is my chief academic hobby, persistent now for quite a few years, and it is one which I do not conceive of myself abandoning in any foreseeable future. Consequently, I am pleased to be able to bring it to Wikipedia and afflict others with my niggling criticisms regarding every detail of the Anglo-Saxon era and its great poetic and prose works.
As an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, I was able to take advantage of what Anglo-Saxonist resources the institution made available, and enjoyed it immensely. At present, I am a graduate student in library and information studies, still at that institution, and so remain able to draw on its resources in that area for the sake of my hobbyist pursuit of all things Old English, using the Old English Dictionary Project's offerings (most importantly, the Corpus Database) to my nefarious ends.
[edit] Yst?
The name Yst, incidentally, is fairly predictably an Old English word which I somewhat arbitrarily adopted as my username a few years ago for all online purposes, on the simple basis that it is
- 1) Only three letters long and thus arcade-machine compliant for name entry purposes, as well as being in general conveniently short, should it need to be re-entered a hundred times a day.
- 2) Rather elegantly, roughly interchangeable with its IPA transcription, for pronunciation purposes. The 'y' is a high front rounded vowel, as /y/.
- 3) Of a rare enough formation that it is unlikely to be claimed in any given system where a username need be chosen.
- 4) Possessed of not too silly an Old English meaning, that being 'storm' or 'tempest'.
[edit] Contributions
Articles I have authored from the ground up presently include
I have also contributed the bulk of Exeter Book's current text.
Additionally, I make it my business to spend a gross excess of time surfing Wikipedia largely at random and correcting inaccurate or incomplete etymologies given on many of its pages, especially where Germanic languages and historical linguistics are concerned.
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