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Re: Lunatic Survey

From:Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Sunday, September 27, 1998, 5:42
Nik Taylor wrote:

> I've never taken the full test, but I took a condensened version. I > came out INTP, but with some characteristics of INTJ. I suspect almost > all of use would be "I", it seems that conlanging is a pretty much > inherently introverted hobby. "N" is probably pretty common, since it > seems to me that that's more compatable with linguistics than the other > one (S?).
While I agree with the last point, I would seem to be evidence against the first. Intuitiveness is something needed to gain a "feel" for languages, something needed to make it individual. It is required to make the leaps of movement needed to derive whole new paradigms. ======================================================= Tom Wier <artabanos@...> ICQ#: 4315704 AIM: Deuterotom Website: <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/eclectorium/> "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." We look at [the Tao], and do not see it; Its name is the Invisible. - Lao Tsu, _Tao Te Ching_ Nature is wont to hide herself. - Herakleitos ========================================================