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Re: Accidental Conlanging

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, January 23, 2003, 15:51
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 Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.