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Huh? What are-what are you doing here? ''Why'' are you here? I'm-I'm-I-I-...
You know what? Welcome. I've been here since about 2010. Twelve years later, I'm just making a page. It's about how things go in my life. I'm a linguist, so, if you wanna ask me questions about languages, I'm game to field them.
!! Tropes I've encountered via TruthInTelevision
* AirGuitar: Usually accompanying a [[Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure Bill & Ted]] reference.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Probably once thought this about my sister. As adults, it has been inverted, as I'm most definitely an irritant to her.
* BigBrotherBully: Not to a seriously-damaging level, but it probably helps explain why my sister doesn't take people's shit.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Given appropriate amounts of caffeine and tasks that are meant to occupy my mind, I can say some pretty outlandish things.
* {{Conlang}}: Love 'em. Love ''making'' 'em.
* [[CutHimselfShaving Cut Myself Shaving]]: My default explanation whenever someone asks me why I have an injury but I can't remember how it happened. Especially if it's a bruise.
* DangerousClifftopRoad: The reason southern Ohio scares me.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: I sometimes can't tell when I've said something stupid aloud or not. I tend to get strange looks whenever I ask people what I just said because I didn't actually say anything.
* DopeSlap: Done carefully since they aren't my kids.
* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Only seems to work on two-year-olds.
* DuctTapeForEverything: While I'm not entirely useless with tools, it is easily the first thing I reach for to solve a problem.
* DudeNotFunny: "Why are you laughing?" has become my go-to statement when it is clear that someone's awful joke is about to get their ass handed to them.
* FacePalm: If it's not covering my exasperation, [[AmusingInjuries it's because I'm trying not to laugh]].
* HonoraryUncle: Probably due to actually being an uncle, many of my sister's friends' children readily refer to me as "Uncle".
* InsistentTerminology: I will start an argument with one of my nieces when they're using Internet slang.
* ItsForABook: I will attempt to gather information on strange things because I am a creative writer who likes to have the facts. I only have to say anything if people notice I'm paying attention to something that sickens others.
* ItsProbablyNothing: Children have taught me that it is ''never'' nothing.
* KillSteal: I will reluctantly admit to doing this in ''MSG: Battle Operation 2''. Mostly because I tend to come out of nowhere after respawning and am trying to get my teammates to focus on the enemy unit that keeps targeting me.
* LeeroyJenkins: I have been known to charge the enemy in ''MSG: Battle Operation 2'' to provide my teammates an opportunity to get a better field position. I have yet to survive this tactic.
* LiteralMinded: I will respond to people literally even if I know what word they intended to use.
* MeaningfulName: My middle name is derived from one of my great-grandfathers. By extension, so is one of my nephews' names.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Developed a dependence due to college.
* MyCarHatesMe: Somehow, I always seem to regularly drive a vehicle with a faulty air conditioner. Which has now become a sign of impending malfunction of something unrelated.
* Narm: I have laughed at least five times for each one of my nieces or nephews throwing a temper tantrum.
* NeverLiveItDown: Ooooooh, yeah...
** Punched a wall in high school. My parents were merciless because I broke my hand in the process.
** Have microwaved food into fire three times. The only way it's been downplayed is that one niece is equally ditzy around microwaves.
* OhCrap: I will sometimes force myself into this mindset if I'm running behind on the day's activities and [[MustHaveCaffeine there isn't a viable source of caffeine available]].
* {{Omniglot}}: Not yet, but I do have at least a passing familiarity in a number of languages.
* OnlyInFlorida: My dad has developed a game where he will read me an absurd headline and ask me if it was Florida, our state of residence, or (on occasion) Japan. I've got a pretty good record.
* PersonaNonGrata: Not me, but my dad and grandparents have been thrown out of the ''exact same McDonalds'' for complaining about a messed-up order. I can only guess that shouting was involved.
* ARareSentence: I have a list of the stupid things my nieces and nephews make me shout at them.
* SodaCanShakeup: My family tends to treat shaken soda bottles like live grenades.
* StealthHiBye: My mom was deaf in one ear and had hearing problems in the other, so she was often victim to this even when it wasn't intentional.
** In spite of my size, I can actually move very quietly and have a tendency to accidentally startle people.
* TakeAThirdOption: It took some time, but I have learned that the easiest way to prevent children from smacking dinnerware against a table, rather than trying to talk them out of it or acting like I'm gonna bear with it, is to just take the dinnerware away.
* TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: One niece hates the fact that I read TVTropes and can tell her about things before she can tell me. Of course, I point out that she only knows things about TV shows and video games because she watches YouTube.
You know what? Welcome. I've been here since about 2010. Twelve years later, I'm just making a page. It's about how things go in my life. I'm a linguist, so, if you wanna ask me questions about languages, I'm game to field them.
!! Tropes I've encountered via TruthInTelevision
* AirGuitar: Usually accompanying a [[Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure Bill & Ted]] reference.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Probably once thought this about my sister. As adults, it has been inverted, as I'm most definitely an irritant to her.
* BigBrotherBully: Not to a seriously-damaging level, but it probably helps explain why my sister doesn't take people's shit.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Given appropriate amounts of caffeine and tasks that are meant to occupy my mind, I can say some pretty outlandish things.
* {{Conlang}}: Love 'em. Love ''making'' 'em.
* [[CutHimselfShaving Cut Myself Shaving]]: My default explanation whenever someone asks me why I have an injury but I can't remember how it happened. Especially if it's a bruise.
* DangerousClifftopRoad: The reason southern Ohio scares me.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: I sometimes can't tell when I've said something stupid aloud or not. I tend to get strange looks whenever I ask people what I just said because I didn't actually say anything.
* DopeSlap: Done carefully since they aren't my kids.
* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Only seems to work on two-year-olds.
* DuctTapeForEverything: While I'm not entirely useless with tools, it is easily the first thing I reach for to solve a problem.
* DudeNotFunny: "Why are you laughing?" has become my go-to statement when it is clear that someone's awful joke is about to get their ass handed to them.
* FacePalm: If it's not covering my exasperation, [[AmusingInjuries it's because I'm trying not to laugh]].
* HonoraryUncle: Probably due to actually being an uncle, many of my sister's friends' children readily refer to me as "Uncle".
* InsistentTerminology: I will start an argument with one of my nieces when they're using Internet slang.
* ItsForABook: I will attempt to gather information on strange things because I am a creative writer who likes to have the facts. I only have to say anything if people notice I'm paying attention to something that sickens others.
* ItsProbablyNothing: Children have taught me that it is ''never'' nothing.
* KillSteal: I will reluctantly admit to doing this in ''MSG: Battle Operation 2''. Mostly because I tend to come out of nowhere after respawning and am trying to get my teammates to focus on the enemy unit that keeps targeting me.
* LeeroyJenkins: I have been known to charge the enemy in ''MSG: Battle Operation 2'' to provide my teammates an opportunity to get a better field position. I have yet to survive this tactic.
* LiteralMinded: I will respond to people literally even if I know what word they intended to use.
* MeaningfulName: My middle name is derived from one of my great-grandfathers. By extension, so is one of my nephews' names.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Developed a dependence due to college.
* MyCarHatesMe: Somehow, I always seem to regularly drive a vehicle with a faulty air conditioner. Which has now become a sign of impending malfunction of something unrelated.
* Narm: I have laughed at least five times for each one of my nieces or nephews throwing a temper tantrum.
* NeverLiveItDown: Ooooooh, yeah...
** Punched a wall in high school. My parents were merciless because I broke my hand in the process.
** Have microwaved food into fire three times. The only way it's been downplayed is that one niece is equally ditzy around microwaves.
* OhCrap: I will sometimes force myself into this mindset if I'm running behind on the day's activities and [[MustHaveCaffeine there isn't a viable source of caffeine available]].
* {{Omniglot}}: Not yet, but I do have at least a passing familiarity in a number of languages.
* OnlyInFlorida: My dad has developed a game where he will read me an absurd headline and ask me if it was Florida, our state of residence, or (on occasion) Japan. I've got a pretty good record.
* PersonaNonGrata: Not me, but my dad and grandparents have been thrown out of the ''exact same McDonalds'' for complaining about a messed-up order. I can only guess that shouting was involved.
* ARareSentence: I have a list of the stupid things my nieces and nephews make me shout at them.
* SodaCanShakeup: My family tends to treat shaken soda bottles like live grenades.
* StealthHiBye: My mom was deaf in one ear and had hearing problems in the other, so she was often victim to this even when it wasn't intentional.
** In spite of my size, I can actually move very quietly and have a tendency to accidentally startle people.
* TakeAThirdOption: It took some time, but I have learned that the easiest way to prevent children from smacking dinnerware against a table, rather than trying to talk them out of it or acting like I'm gonna bear with it, is to just take the dinnerware away.
* TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: One niece hates the fact that I read TVTropes and can tell her about things before she can tell me. Of course, I point out that she only knows things about TV shows and video games because she watches YouTube.
