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Hi. My name is Mike Wright. I've just joined the group, and thought I would introduce myself. I first got involved in Tceqli/Ceqlix/Ceqli/Txeqli starting back in about 02/97, and off-and-on several times since then, the big interruption being when my wife had a stroke back in 07/98. My language background is that I was an Army translator for the better part of twenty years, having gone through the Defense Language Institute for Mandarin, Japanese, and Arabic (Modern Standard, with an Egyptian flavor). I've also spent some time studying Hokkien (the Taiwanese/Xiamen variety of Southern Min Chinese), Vietnamese, Indonesian/Malay, and Hebrew, as well as a bit of German, Spanish, and French. I've lived in Taiwan (20 months) and Japan (7.5 years). My wife is a native speaker of Hokkien, and also speaks Mandarin and Japanese. I've been retired for almost twenty years now. Only Mandarin, Hokkien, and Japanese are still usable. I'm very interested in linguistics, but haven't done any formal study of it. I'm particularly interested in Chinese "dialects" and historical phonology (reconstruction). I do read a lot on the subject, though, and have tons of good books. Until recently, I spent quite a bit of time on the sci.lang and sci.lang.japan newsgroups, but work has heated up and interfered with my fun. I have a language-related Web page at http:// www.coastalfog.net/languages/lang_main.html. Hope I can contribute something. Cheers. Mike Wright