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Given name: Gabriel
Family name: Ehrnst Grundin
Pronounciation (IPA): ˈɡɑːbriˌɛl æɳʂt ɡrɤnˈdiːn
Date of birth (N.S.): October 13, 1983
Place of birth: St. George's Hospital
(S:t Görans sjukhus),
Stockholm, Sweden
Primary language: Swedish
Secondary language: English
Tertiary languages: German, Arabic
Height 183cm (6ft)
First Wikipedia edit: November 16, 2002

Hello, I am Gabriel Ehrnst Grundin (born October 13, 1983).

Most percieve me as a introverted, erudite, dour martinet. My interests include languages, Europe, history, etc.

I am a former student of Enskilda Gymnasiet. I did my 450-day conscripted tour of duty and I am now a Second Lieutenant ('Fänrik') within the Swedish Armed Forces. In 2004 I began my studies in Physics (Teknisk Fysik) at the RIT (KTH).

Heroes of mine include Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), Ernst Jünger (1895–1998), Jonas Salk (1914–1995), Orson Welles (1915–1985).

My activites here on Wikipedia mainly focuses on pure "gardening", fixing spelling errors, removing dupes, fixing links, adding metric figures when only imperial units are given, copyediting, etc. But I also like to help people get rid of their prejudices on various topics around the non-Western world, as well as those about lesser known parts of the Western world, and in general, to try and break the overt US-centricism of Wikipedia. Except for that, my interests vary from tall buildings, sights in London, airports & air crashes, bridges, etc.

Political biases which I adhere to:

In the whole "languages v. dialects" I find myself more to the "dialects"-side than what is currently seems to be predominant on the 'pedia. That is to say, I find myself disagreeing with the Ethnologue and perhaps even the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in that I see separatists or people enganging in petty nationalism when they claim that, for example, Berlin-German is a separate language from Bavarian German in the same sense that Welsh is separate from London English, or that Scanian is as (or more!) different from Stockholm Swedish as Oslo Norwegian is from Stockholm Swedish, etc.

As for Anti-American sentiment, I find its growing presence around Europe disturbing, although I don't see it as being as overwhelming and omnipresent as many would have it. Also, I'm not only opposed to it based on my love for all things American, I certainly have my reservations as for foreign policy decisions, etc. I think the article Living with a superpower in the January 3, 2003 issue of The Economist is a good start.

People whose opinions matter to me:

People who can form sentences in a way that moves me:

Artists who I believe have profoundly changed the way in which we see the world:


Pinyin tones:
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