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Hallo all! My name is Gareth Hughes. I am an Anglican priest, living in Oxford, England. I am Chaplain of Hertford College, Oxford, and study Syriac at the Oriental Institute in the University of Oxford. I am most interested in working on articles about language and linguistics, and religion and spirituality. I have been a Wikipedian since 23 November 2004, and an administrator since 21 October 2005 (RfA). My greatest achievement here so far has been writing the Aramaic language article to featured status. Wikiblessings! :Gareth Hughes ([http://www.garzo.co.uk/ Website: garzo.co.uk] | [http://christhum.wordpress.com Blog: Ad Fontes] | [http://www.facebook.com/garzo Facebook] | [http://www.twitter.com/garzohugo Twitter: @GarzoHugo]). |rowspan="3"| {|style="float:right; background-color:lightcyan; border:2px dotted #aaaaaa; padding:15px; margin-left:1em" |style="padding:5px; font-family:roman; font-size:13pt"| :Thoughts, meditations and quotations |
style="padding:5px 5px 0 5px; font-family:roman; font-size:8pt"|And how does the light creep into the eye? No one has grasped it: just as our Saviour who dwelt in the womb. |
style="padding:0 5px; font-family:roman; font-size:8pt; text-align:right"|— St Ephrem the Syrian. |
style="padding:0 5px; font-family:roman; font-size:8pt"|This is true perfection: not to avoid a wicked life because we fear punishment, like slaves; not to do good because we expect repayment, as if cashing in on the virtuous life by enforcing some business deal. On the contrary, disregarding all those good things which we do hope for and which God has promised us, we regard falling from God’s friendship as the only thing dreadful, and we consider becoming God’s friend the only thing truly worthwhile. |
style="padding:0 5px; font-family:roman; font-size:8pt; text-align:right"|— St Gregory of Nyssa. |
style="padding:0 5px; font-family:roman; font-size:8pt"|Only that which is turned to love in our lives can see salvation. |
style="padding:0 5px; font-family:roman; font-size:8pt; text-align:right"|— unknown. |
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Current projects
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=On the boil=
- History of Eastern Christianity in Asia and Nestorianism in China.
- Polishing up Syriac language (expanding the grammar section).
- Collaboration on Arabic literature, Arabic poetry and Arabic epic literature.
- Biblical Aramaic and the Aramaic of Jesus need a lot more work done on them.
- Syriac Christianity could do with expansion.
- Bardaisan article needs moved and reworked.
- Members of the covenant needs completed.
- Doctrine of Addai or Teaching of Addai needs a proper treatment.
- Improve articles on Jacob of Nisibis, Jacob of Serugh, Narsai, Philoxenus of Mabbog, Babai the Great (other Babais), Isaac of Nineveh, Jacob of Edessa, Ishodad of Merv, Dionysius bar Salibi/Jacob Bar-Salibi, Jacob Baradaeus, Joshua the Stylite, Barsauma, Peter the Fuller, Ibas, Rabbula, Yahya ibn `Adi, Severus of Antioch, Ishoyahb (two of them){{spaced ndash}}see my list at /projects#Syriac literature
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=Simmering=
- Writing a more complete article on the Syriac Orthodox Church.
- Giving a hand with Barnabas.
- Different approaches to categorizing Semitic languages.
- Grammatical tense in a horrible state, perhaps Tense (linguistics) is needed, but do we also need a Tense (phonetics)? The dumping ground for source material about tense from the world's languages is at Grammatical tense/multilingual sources.
=Back burner=
- Taking a look at List of dialects of the English language.
- Church of England needs some attention: it reads more like a history book.
- Holidays and festivals (fancy one?).
- Likewise for Grammatical aspect.
- English grammar - proof that speaking it doesn't mean you know how it works.
- Ephrem the Syrian could be reread and reworked.
- Articles on Neo-Aramaic languages (I've written the articles, but it'd be good to do the rounds once more).
- Lots of little tweaks around Ancient Egypt and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
- Some work on the UN observances.
- Helping to edit a fair Assyrian article (and maybe Chaldean): there is a lot of political POV here.
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Past projects
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File:Exceptional_newcomer.jpg for your contributions, always of exceptional quality, to all sorts of articles (and notably the linguistic ones in the corner of Wikipedia where I'm most at home). You arrived barely a month ago, and reading through your [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&limit=250&offset=350&hideminor=0&target=Garzo contributions], I think that almost every single one of them is very valuable and well thought-out. Your list of Past projects speaks for itself. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Keep up the good work! |File:Hero of Socialist Labor medal.png from above, for all your efforts on the hieroglyph templates, you are hereby my hero of the day and here is a gold star (I hope you won't take offence at being awarded an ex-Soviet honour).{{spaced ndash}}ALoan (Talk) 22:24, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)]] |
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|File:Rosetta_Barnstar.png is awarded in recognition of your work in helping build the world's best free collection of shared community knowlegde about languages{{spaced ndash}}which are, after all, one of the best windows into the miracle of our diverse but shared humanity. ntennis 12:15, 31 January 2006 (UTC)]]
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! Tranlit. ! Say ! style="text-align:left;" | Notes |
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|3 |a | style="text-align:left;" | called aleph, |
|ỉ |i/a | style="text-align:left;" | called yodh |
|y |y | style="text-align:left;" | double yodh |
|̒ |a | style="text-align:left;" | called ayin, |
|w |w/u | style="text-align:left;" | called waw |
|b |b | style="text-align:left;" | a lower leg |
|p |p | style="text-align:left;" | a reed mat or stool |
|f |f | style="text-align:left;" | a horned viper |
|m |m | style="text-align:left;" | an owl |
|n |n | style="text-align:left;" | a ripple of water |
|r |r | style="text-align:left;" | a mouth |
|h |h | style="text-align:left;" | a reed shelter |
|ḥ |h | style="text-align:left;" | an emphatic h, |
|ḫ |kh | style="text-align:left;" | a gutteral sound, |
|ẖ |kh | style="text-align:left;" | a softer sound, |
|s |s | style="text-align:left;" | a folded cloth or a door bolt |
|š |sh | style="text-align:left;" | a garden pool |
|ḳ |k | style="text-align:left;" | an emphatic k, |
|k |k | style="text-align:left;" | a basket with handle |
|g |g | style="text-align:left;" | a jar stand |
|t |t | style="text-align:left;" | a bun |
|ṯ |ch | style="text-align:left;" | as in English church, |
|d |d | style="text-align:left;" | a hand |
|ḏ |j | style="text-align:left;" | as in English judge, |
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|rowspan="3" valign="top" | 100px |rowspan="3" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | ܚܠܥܬܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܐܦܪܡ The Barnstar of Mor Ephrem |
style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your quality contributions to Syriac Christian topics, I hereby award you the Mor Ephrem barnstar. |
style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" |this WikiAward was given to Garzo by Rafy talk on 22:50, 20 July 2011 (UTC) |
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