About Richard Flynn
Richard Flynn is currently in his last year studying for a degree in French and Latin at the University of Oxford. After he has completed his undergraduate studies he hopes to train in the field of Graphic Design.
Richard Flynn is half-Australian and half-English. In this case the Australian half is the ‘bigger’ of the two.
Richard Flynn is a Catholic.
Richard Flynn is a linguistic prescriptivist. This means that he would like everyone to speak and write in a grammatically ‘correct’ way. However, he recognizes that there are different sets of usage—of English particularly—which are equally acceptable in different parts of of the world and among different people. He always tries to write English using ‘Oxford spelling’, which is why in the last sentence he wrote ‘recognizes’ when the more common spelling in both Australia and the U.K. is ‘recognises’. He also applies the ‘serial’ or ‘Oxford’ comma universally in everything he writes, which he hopes avoids confusion.
Richard Flynn is a Mac user. He thinks that the Mac is a more stable platform than any of the alternatives—at least for his own situation. Other people might be better off using another Operating System, but he is surprised when people haven’t even considered how the Mac might better suit their own computing style, and instead blindly follow the crowd into more commonly-seen alternatives.
Richard Flynn likes taking photographs.