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Re: Accidental Conlanging

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, January 23, 2003, 22:48
Czhang W.O.G. (I love that!) wrote:
> ROTFLMAO... no friggin' joke. OCLD = Obsessive ConLanging Disorder. > >Ya know ya have OCLD if ya: >
(snip excellent list of symptoms, all of which afflict me) Wonderful post, a real day-brightener (looking at 8in. of snow outside)........ But people, Ssshhhh......careful what you say. Before we know it, OCLD will appear on p. 21429 of the Psychiatric Reference Manual or whatever they call it....and shortly thereafter The Drug Company (Smif-Kline-Glaxo-Pharma-Schmarma-Bayer-Elf and Sons, Inc. GMBH Pty. PLC S.A. will produce a wonder drug, Neiklotex, to cure it. (Caution: in clinically-conducted trials, side effects in a sample of 13 were found to include drowsiness, catatonia, cramps, flatulence, kidney or liver failure, teen-onset Alzheimer's, incontinentia, mania, priapism, aneurysm, prolapsus ani/vaginae, bronchitis, phlebitis, and/or paralysis; statistically insignificant portions of the sample reported others, including death.)