Hello,
> Ya know ya have OCLD if ya:
>
> - haunt many bookstores hunting for linguistics books
> and foreign language dictionaries
Yes, that's definitely me.
> - willing to pay exorbitant prices for said books
In rubles. Can't get a hold on books from beyond the iron curtain, hehe
:-(
> - scribble notes on languages - natlang and conlang -
> at strange
> times of the day and night and even while in the bathtub or
> sitting on the toilet
Umm... Sometimes. I once did a whole Skuodian adjectival declension
while sitting at a lecture on Old Church Slavic adjectives.
> - have memorized the _entire_ IPA and at least one ASCII
> representation thereof
Hmm, they make us memorize then IPA during the Phonetics course...
> - talk in your own conlang(s) as well as try to read
> aloud other's conlangs
Sometimes. Caught myself reading Brithenig aloud once :-)
> - find yourself automatically attempting to translate
> advertisement
> slogans and magazine headlines into conlangs while waiting in doctors'
> offices or waiting for a bus, etc.
Nope... Probably because Skuodian isn't that complete....
> - constantly/consistently websurfing for linguistic
> and conlinguistic
> materials
What else is there? ;-)
> - don't at all mind the high volume of email postings
> on the ConLang
> (and related email lists)
Yep, that's me...
I guess that definitely counts for a not-very-acute OCLD stage....
Pavel
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Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru
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--Scottish proverb