On Wednesday 22 January 2003 11:20 pm, J Y S Czhang wrote:
> In a message dated 2003:01:21 08.24.54 PM, slimehoo@YAHOO.COM
writes:
>
> >Conlanging: It's not a hobby, it's a mental illness.
>
> 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
Yep. Definitely the linguistics books!
> - willing to pay exorbitant prices for said books
Not really. No more than $75 per linguistics book or $20 per foreign
lang dict.
> - 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
Oh yes.
> - have memorized the _entire_ IPA and at least one ASCII
> representation thereof
Well, all the parts I need for Kélen & a bit more.
> - talk in your own conlang(s) as well as try to read aloud
other's
> conlangs
Sometimes.
> - find yourself automatically attempting to translate
advertisement
> slogans and magazine headlines into conlangs while waiting in
doctors'
> offices or waiting for a bus, etc.
Kélen is difficult enough to translate that I'm happy to simply
restructure any headlines and slogans into Kélen syntax, changing
things from Adj Noun Verb Adj Noun (or whatever) into Relational Noun
Noun (whatever) can take up a lot of time.
> - constantly/consistently websurfing for linguistic and
conlinguistic
> materials ("I'm goin' surfin', I'm goin' surfin'... Hang Binary,
Dude!...
> DiGiBuNGaaAAA!!!)
When I have time.
> - 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
I skim it, but I often don't have time to read it all.
--
Sylvia Sotomayor
sylvia1@ix.netcom.com
The Kélen language can be found at:
http://home.netcom.com/~sylvia1/Kelen/kelen.html
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