Re: CHAT: The love of inventing & conscripts (Was: Re: I'm new!)

On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Adam Walker wrote:

> >From: jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>
> >>I still do :-(.  When I passively ride in a vehicle, I imagine the exact
> >same sword cutting down *everything* on the side of the road.  Or I
> >imagine that there is someone that has to ride on the side of the road
> >along the tops of trees or telephone wires and he has to keep up with the
> >car by jumping or whatever.  It can be very irritating, but almost
> >involuntary.
> >
>
> This is too weird.  How many of us do this same thing??  I'm guilty.  Is
> this all part of one huge neurotic OCD whose end result is conlanging???
> *erie background music*
For the record, this is the first time I've ever heard of this sort of,
hmm, phenomenon.  OTOH I'm a latecomer to conlanging (well, relative to
my current age).  OC, I have my own obsessions...

YHL