Well, if I’m going to be A2A’d by Ms Tsymbarevich, I am of course going to accept!
- Lived in Launceston, Tasmania, but I got better. (I actually do say this!)
- Tasmania bio: “Was born in Tasmania, but I got better 🙂 ”—see?
- Lived in Irvine, CA, but I don’t really consider that living.
- Former Project Scientist at University of California, Irvine, but let’s not open that sad chapter again.
- Senior Business Analyst & Standards Architect at National Schools Interoperability Program, Australia, but really, more policy analyst AND infrastructure developer these days. Yes, it is an odd combination.
- Nicknames: Linguist, but I couldn’t fit my usual bio “PhD in Linguistics from Melbourne University, lectured historical linguistics” into the new Credentials system, because Quora Knows Best.
- West Wing: Married to an addict of The West Wing, but after the first 20 viewings, all the holes in the show become really visible, and I want to embed a pickaxe in Josh Lyman’s head.
- Grammaticalization: Used grammaticalisation as the framework for my PhD. (It didn’t quite fit.) But I think it’s a great framework for understanding language change, even if it is hazy on the causations and overly optimistic about the unidirectionality.
- Roman Empire: Have read about the BYZANTINE empire, co-wrote monograph on a Byzantine poem, but the Quora Ontology has decided not to differentiate between Rome and Constantinople.
- Survey Questions: I… occasionally succumb to answering survey questions, but likely not occasionally enough.
- Quora Usage Data and Analysis: My kingdom for a functioning Stats page, but I have learned to manage my expectations. And yes, it’s functioning better than it used to, but it’s still not that informative.
- Politics of Australia: Federal Australian Politics. Gladiator sports for the 2010s, but really, not much less gladiatorial in previous decades—just less corpses.
- Nick Nicholas: I am a world expert on at least one Nick Nicholas, but you’re going to have to work out which one on your own.