Andre, sorry for delay in responding... May we add Andre to the list and welcome him as the new member of the Language committee?
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 2:54 AM, André Müller <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, dear LangCom group, > > Michael asked me if I'd be interested in this position and indeed I am, > although I am not exactly sure yet what it entails. > > So, I'm André, I'm 32 years old, from Germany, and a doctoral student at > the University of Zurich. I studied linguistics and Chinese studies and am > studying the languages of mainland Southeast Asia, of Myanmar in > particular. The languages of this area (roughly Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, > Cambodia and Vietnam, and parts of southern China, such as Yunnan) are a > main interest of me, and I'm doing research on them. I speak Mandarin > Chinese and Thai, and I am currently learning Burmese, Vietnamese as well > as two minority languages of Burma (Jinghpaw and Shan). > I used to be an active Wikipedian, edited many articles and wrote a few > ones myself (e.g. most of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsez_language), > but recently don't have much more time for more than minor edits and > corrections. If I can be of help as someone experienced with the languages > of mainland Southeast Asia, of different scripts, orthographies, linguistic > features, I'm willing to provide as much help as my schedule currently > allows. > > > Best wishes from Switzerland, > - André > > 2017-02-13 0:13 GMT+01:00 Michael Everson <[email protected]>: > >> Please ask him :-) >> >> I’ve cc’d him here. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:N-true >> >> >> >> >> > On 12 Feb 2017, at 11:57, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > As André hasn't applied for the membership, I worded the proposal a >> > little bit differently. >> > >> > The main point behind my proposal is that it's very hard to find that >> > kind of areal linguist. >> > >> > It would be good if Michael would tell us a bit more about him. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Langcom mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > >
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