Gwern Branwen

Um, it's very funny.

Um, you look at me and you're like, Oh yes, he looks like a perfectly ordinary American.

Then I opened my mouth and people are kind of like, Oh gosh, uh, he's Swedish or, uh, you know, wow.

Maybe possibly Norwegian.

Um, I'll ask him where he's actually from.

How did he come to America?

Um,

I've been here the whole time.

That's just how hearing impaired people sound.

No matter how fluent you get, you still bear the scars of growing up hearing impaired.

At least when you're born with it or from very early childhood, your cognitive development of hearing and speech is always a little off, even with therapy.

One reason I don't like doing podcasts is I have no confidence that I sound good or at least sound nearly as good as I write.

Maybe I'll put it that way.

Before I started blogging, I was editing Wikipedia.

That was really kind of Gorn.net before Gorn.net.

Um, everything I do now with my site, I would have done on English Wikipedia.

And if you go and read some of the articles, you know, I'm still very proud of them.

Like the Wikipedia article on Fujiwara and Notega.

Um, and you would, you know, think pretty quickly to yourself, you're reading this like, ah, yes, you know, Gorin wrote this, didn't he?

Yeah, I think so.