En réponse à J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:
>
> ROTFLMAO... no friggin' joke. OCLD = Obsessive ConLanging
> Disorder.
>
> Ya know ya have OCLD if ya:
>
> - haunt many bookstores hunting for linguistics books and
> foreign
> language dictionaries
>
Check.
> - willing to pay exorbitant prices for said books
>
Not me. But that's because I couldn't pay for them anyway :(( .
> - 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
>
I used to do that (and began conlanging in class, the worst place of all for
it ;)) ), but not anymore. God, am I healing?!
> - have memorized the _entire_ IPA and at least one ASCII
> representation thereof
>
Well, I know about 90% of the IPA (still have difficulties with the diacritics)
and 75% of X-SAMPA (still have problems with clicks, diacritics and those
elusive central vowels...). But I always have a chart at hand when needed.
> - talk in your own conlang(s) as well as try to read aloud
> other's
> conlangs
>
I tend to do vocalise quite often when I'm looking for a word or reading other
people's conlang indeed :)) .
> - find yourself automatically attempting to translate
> advertisement
> slogans and magazine headlines into conlangs while waiting in doctors'
> offices or waiting for a bus, etc.
>
Not specifically, but I often got ideas in those places indeed ;)) .
> - constantly/consistently websurfing for linguistic and
> conlinguistic
> materials ("I'm goin' surfin', I'm goin' surfin'... Hang Binary,
> Dude!...
> DiGiBuNGaaAAA!!!)
>
Constantly, yes. Consistently... Naaaaaaah... Now, I'm quite proud of my
Conlang and Natlang favourite folders ;)) . They've arrived to the point that
they cannot show all links on a single screen ;))) .
> - don't at all mind the high volume of email postings on the
> ConLang
> (and related email lists), in fact, LOVE it and can't imagine life
> without it
>
Check! Double- and triplecheck!!!
> And, in my case, conlanging is one major factor in my sobriety -
> nowadays, I rather be conlanging than be drunk, high and/or loaded.
> It's a more interesting, productive, less damaging, creative
> obsession.
Agreed.
> Kinda makes me wonder if Tolkien called it the "secret vice" for more
> reasons
> than he let on.
>
Did you ever think that he told us everything?! ;))))
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
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