Philologia Sæculārēs

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Owner of possibly the most pretentious name on all the Wikimedia.

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General areas of interest: semiotics and grammar.
Professional experience: book and document editing.

Pages I started

Barry Award (award since renamed to "Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award") (6 February 2009)
Hannah Gadsby (9 April 2009)
Eppie Lederer (8 July 2009)
Button collecting (under my previous name, 6 March 2010)

Just out of interest

terms for human-looking robots from works of fiction

Replicant, from Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the 1982 film Blade Runner
Cylon, from 2003 TV series Battlestar Galactica (though cylons aren't always/necessarily human-looking)
Synth, from 2015 TV series 'HUM∀NS'
- related term: Synthie: a human who tries to behave and look like a Synth

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