Wikipedia user Oceanbourne is Mike.
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Oceanbourne is a writer, translator, legal scholar, linguist, and theorist who has written for the popular, trade, news, and academic media on a variety of topics including:
- video games and gaming as a cultural aspect
- gay rights and gay-oreinted legal issues
- law and technology issues
- architecture
- the literary work of Hélène Cixous
- Nordic history and lore
- translation theory
- transliteration of non-Slavic languages that use Cyrillic orthographies.
- medico-legal issues & legal ethics
- aviation law
- admiralty law
In regard to Wikipedia, his main focus is the creation and editing of articles dealing with:
- law and technology
- Faroese Culture
- Nordic culture and languages
- mythologies
- Danish writers
- military history
- computer languages
- computer science
- transliteration
A few of Oceanbourne's peer-reviewed publications:
"Programming and Analysis of Historic Texts" Multilingual Computing & Technology, 12: 7. pp. 37-39
"Metaphor in Old French and Its Translation: Chrétien de Troyes’ Érec et Énide". The ATA Chronicle. May, 2002.
"Queer manifestations on the Internet: the evolution of legal obstacles and legal freedoms". Mots Pluriels, 19. October 2001.
the above is availible online here[1]
Some Quirky Personal details:
favourite authors:
Fiction and Non-fiction: Jane Austen, Clarice Lispector, Thomas Mann, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Gloria Jahoda, Kate Chopin, JT Leroy, Marcel Proust, Dennis Cooper, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Carson McCullers, and Emily Brontë.
Poetry: Robert Frost, John Clare, Muriel Rukeyser, T.S. Eliot, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Arthur Rimbaud, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Terik Trout, Autumn McClintock, and Jorie Graham.
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--Mike 03:54, 21 October 2005 (UTC)