SomeCatOnTheInternet

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A cat with disposable thumbs.

This user is interested in or develops constructed languages.

Art

This user is an Artist. This user creates.

This user is an avid worldbuilder.

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Dieser Benutzer spricht Deutsch als Muttersprache.

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This user can contribute with a near-native level of English.

This user is interested in
Human Prehistory

This user is interested in archaeology.

This user received poor-quality copper from Ea-nāṣir.

This user is interested in
Geography.

This user is a guinea pig owner.

This user likes Cheetahs.

This user enjoys electro swing

This user is a book collector.

The joy of knowledge

As Wikipedia had given me many good starting points for rather obscure topics over the years, I felt as if I should add a tiny bit to the pool of knowledge this site already has. Whilst I may be no doctor in any field, I do have access to an entire library worth of new and old books and I am willing to scour the internet for reliable sources.

I've always had fun learning some new stuff that falls within the range of my interests and I hope that others have fun doing so too. Whilst most of my aquired knowledge is only tangentially applicable to my personal life, it does find usage i my worldbuilding-endeavors, from conlanging, over fictional evolution to the creation of cultures. Isn't that joy worth reading through hundreds of pages just to find the solution to a problem in your made-up thought experiment?

Old books

Thanks to my grandparents, a nearby antiquety store and some searching I have amassed a small but neat collection of books from between the 1850s to 1910s, most in German. My favourites are defeitely "Das Weltgebäude. Eine gemeinverständliche Himmelskunde" from 1898 and "Weltall und Menschheit" 1-5 from the early 1910s. I love books with pictures in colour from those times, there's just something about them.

I don't think that many facts in them hold up to date though, considering that the former book shows depictions of life on Saturn's moons, unironically.

Pet peeves

People love to say that worldbuilding is a waste of time. Guess what, my mental health has never been better!

People ignoring factual arguements.

People who make any discussion escalate for no reasons.

People mishandeling old stuff, be it old books, sites or anything of the sorts.

Tourists with the inability to read signs. Or are incapable of proper etiquette.

That the genetive-s in "Das ist mein Vaters Auto." is not like the English possessive-s. No, it is not "Das ist mein Vater sein Auto.", that is a grammatical error that I've heard far too often and too many people have claimed that it is correct. Learn your own language before you start butchering English too, fellow Germans!

And I dare you to put an apostrophe between the word and the s. That may be even worse!

If someone writes "... das alles ist Max's seine Schuld..." or anything of similar nature which is the combination of every mistake you can make in regard to the genetive-s in German in an E-Mail to me again I am going to explode.

Closing words

Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this silly little page and I wish you a great day/night!