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This user used to be an admin, and decided to [[Kill two birds with one stone]] when he got so daft that remembering his password became daunting: his new account is [[user:JerzyA]], he has a cool set of backups for never again forgetting it again, and the acct does not have admin permissions.<br>--[[User:JerzyA|JerzyA]] ([[User talk:JerzyA|talk]]) 14:51, 8 April 2019 (UTC)<!--
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And thanks for being so neighborly as to gain whatever facility you have with this brash, typically American, and endlessly frustrating language.
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Somewhere and -when since writing that, i stumbled across the orthodox (and IMO probably correct) explanation of the odd (and seemingly egotistical) casing: it apparently dates back to the age of [[manuscript]]s and [[scriptorium|scriptoria]]. When you're dealing with [[oak-gall]] ink and [[parchment]] from [[Pergamon]] (or with [[papyrus]]) (and [[pen]]s made by cutting off the tip of a goose [[flight feather|quill]] at a sharp angle, then cleverly [[nib (pen)|splitting the new tip]] to [[quill pen|make it feed]] the way a [[fountain pen]] does), you're going to have a fair number of stray marks -- particularly if it's not yet standard to [[tittle|"dot"]] the [[lowercase]] letters i and j (which i conjecture was another means of distinguishing them from strays). I presume that (except in the cases of royal personages) ''that'' need, institutionalized as orthography, was the source of the way i was ''taught'' to spell the nominative first singular pronoun. YMMV, an' dat's 'kay w/ Me!
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::'' 17:01, 25 Oct 2003 and modified through''
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:'' I now consider it obsolete, except for the parts that have been copied above. In particular, i eventually noticed that the [[List of people known as war heroes]], which survived [[Talk:List of people known as war heroes/delete|one AfD]], and whose relationship to people gaining political power by being ''perceived'' as war heroes [[Talk:List of people known as war heroes|interested me for a while]], was [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people known as war heroes (2nd nomination)|later deleted]].]''
Yes, i like it here. I'm doing a lot of random editing, and editing that diffuses out from something regardless of the fact that the post-diffusion subject matter doesn't interest me.
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