User:Adam Restling

About me
My assumed name is, as you might have guessed, Adam Restling. It was based on a semi-complex linguistic pun on my real name although, as it turns out, rest is actually incorrect. Whoops. Anyway, I love linguistics, fiction, mythology, and so the various ways any of them interplay in media and entertainment. I am not fluent in anything but English, but I strive to take what I do know, and the many (free/available) resources at my disposal, to be as accurate as possible. As I have stated in several posts, the finer points of grammar and sentence structure may confound me sometimes, but I usually find little trouble in simpler things, such as words or verbs in isolation. Japanese is an especial interest of mine, language-wise, but I love a little of about everything.

I joined because I got tired of seeing some of the more salient mistakes go uncorrected. I try to be literate, thorough, and explanatory in all my posts, be it here or on Net forums. That way, even if someone doesn't quite agree with me, they can see clearly where I'm coming from. This literacy also spurs me to be as "elegant" as possible when I post, i.e. avoiding eyesore typos if I can... even if it means a few edits.

I hope to update this data more as time and circumstances permit. If you message me and I am slow to reply, hopefully you won't take offense. With the way *thangs* are these days, what I can do and the amount of my leisure are wildly erratic.

Translation work for this Wikia
Thanks to Salubri, we now have a page dedicated to posting translation and related issues-type questions, and where answers to these can be posted as well, usually by myself for MarqFJA. Whateven help I can provide, *when* I can provide it, I will endeavor to do so, hopefully in a timely fashion. Enjoy my rambling explanations! XD And I apologize for having goofed up the organization of the entries so far: I should arrange stuff into categories better, for quick reference.

My BLEACH fan characters
As an avid fan of much of what BLEACH has to offer, I was inexorably drawn to trying to create my own extra-canonical fan characters for it. Tapping all my linguistic and literate resources, my goal with these characters was to make them seem so accurate and in-tune with the real BLEACH that even an ardent fan of the series would think they sprang straight from the manga itself... and also so I could mentally role-play as an ultra-hax dark horse against the many fighters the BLEACH universe has to offer, of course! XD

I'm still new to all this editing-your-own-Wikia hocus-pocus (XD) so I'll update my data as I learn/become less lazy.

I'm so, so sorry
Sorry it sometimes-cum-often takes me a while to respond to queries re: translations etc. Of late I'm very busy during the week, and very sleeping on the weekend, so I rarely have time, Mon-Fri, to do anything aught but chase sweet lady H... I mean, work. XD

I'll try to approach any such issues brought to my attention with the care I feel they deserve, as soon as I'm able--even if it means the inevitable fight with my browser as it slows because of too much resource-surfing. Again, sorry for any delays.

Outfoxed by Kitsune
I just discovered that it appears that Kitsune Ayanami actually beat me to identifying the correct spelling and extraction of Jagdarmee. At least I can still take pride if giving some background and additional notation/explanation for it, but credit on first figuring it out independently goes to him/her. :)

Mnemonics
I thought putting some things I really should remember here would make it easy reference; hope this doesn't violate any rules.

How To Archive My Talk Page
1. Click "Edit" on the page

2. Highlight and copy the contents of the page, then delete the highlighted contents

3. On the blank page, put User talk:Adam Restling/Archive ''', i.e. the archive's # (number), and hit "Publish"

4. Click the red link for the archive, paste the contents on its blank page, and hit "Publish"

Links
Intra-Wikia links include ', the article name, e.g. "Translation_Corner", a | and the link text, plus closing '.

Extra-Wikia links include [, the full URL of the link, a space, the link text, and the closing ].

Other
Lenny = White, Carl = Black. XD

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