Hi! I like to use the username Auleliel, which for some reason most people can't seem to pronounce or spell, so feel free to call me Owlie. Auleliel is Quenya (i.e. one of Tolkien's Elvish languages) for "daughter of Aule", and Aule was that dude in the Silmarillion who made Dwarves. (I like making stuff, and I have friends who are even more obsessive about cool awesome geeky stuff than I am and who are talented at making fun usernames.)
I'm a socially awkward English teacher in Japan, and I don't remember how old I am without doing math because I always lie to my students when they ask ("I'm 200" or "I'm 5" are frequent answers I give to "How old are you?"). Also, I lived in South Korea for three years prior to moving to Japan, and they count ages differently there, so that got me a bit confused. Heh. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I'm somewhere between the ages of 25 and 30. I alternate between being ENFP and INFP on the Meyers-Briggs, and most of the time I can't decide whether I need to surround myself with people or become a hermit. I really felt a strong connection to Hannu in aRTD--perhaps my inner self is rather like him (including the jerkiness, sorry).
Whenever I learn a new language I promptly forget most of all previous languages I've learned, so I've forgotten Spanish, German, and Korean. When I remembered Spanish I could also understand Italian and written French. I'm currently learning Japanese. I know random words and sentences in several real and constructed languages, and I can read several real and constructed writing systems. So far learning kanji is the most interesting part of learning Japanese. I hate Esperanto and don't much care for French, but I'm fascinated by most other languages (even though my mind is like a sieve made of wet noodles--most information goes straight through and only random stuff sticks).
My dream is to travel the world by teaching English in various countries for a few years at a time. Since I have already achieved this dream I'm not sure what to do with the rest of my life.
I have a black belt in judo that I probably didn't really earn completely. I can't cook. I can bake but I have no oven. I can play the violin, viola, and piano. I can't run more than two blocks without hyperventilating but I can pin a man twice my weight to the floor for 30 seconds and choke him out, so I guess I don't really need to run, do I? I've been crocheting for 20ish years but only got around to making my first sweater this year.
I read manga and watch anime, but only for the past 5 years. I also read lots of sci-fi and fantasy, and watch it sometimes, too. I listen to classical music and opera sometimes. I don't like most music that I've heard on the radio in the past 15ish years. I have strong opinions and avoid talking about the issues I'm opinionated about because once I start talking it's hard to shut me up before I offend everyone in a 50-km radius. I understand and appreciate the metric system but find it difficult to use because I grew up with whatever you call the system they use in the USA (I'm from somewhere in that country originally, unless I really am an extraterrestrial). Nobody understands my sense of humor, and if somebody thinks I said something funny, I pretend I intended the joke.
I found SSSS on November 26th via a Facebook post reposted from another fb post reposted from a Mental Floss article about the language tree page. By November 30th I had read all of SSSS and aRTD and started a (much slower) reread of aRTD. I joined this forum because everyone I know in real life is sick of hearing me talk about this webcomic (the first webcomic I ever read!) and I need to talk to
somebody about it or I'll explode.
I'm longwinded and disorganized. I apologize for the inconvenience.
