Paul Bennett jazdy:
> Also
> listed among the traits are a tendency to be more liberal in sexual
> attitudes,
No.
> a disregard for rules that get in the way of doing fun work,
Yes, yes and yes!
> a
> love of spicy food,
No. Let it be salty, acid (read: add vinegar) and dressed with mayonnaise
and/or ketchup...
> an interest in the martial arts,
No.
> an appreciation of
> word-play,
Yes. Tons of puns, pons of tuns.
> and a feeling that the line between work and play can be
> blurry.
Absolutely yes.
> Perhaps conlangers can be described as hackers of the
> linguistic realm?
I rrreally like this idea. My wife used to say: "Darling, you would take a
language, open it with a pocket knife like a can, and eat without adding
salt and onion".
-- Yitzik the Poisonous Snakie, an amateur linguohacker.