Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?

yeah, that's why i put "cause" in quotes.  i tend to think in systems, like
cybernetics, especially 2nd order cybernetics.  Especially when i comes to
language, consciousness, and their relations.
RR

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Mechthild Czapp <0zu149@...> wrote:

> > I am curious if anyone else sees effects in your
> > reality-sense that you attribute to your conlanging activities in any
> way?
> > Diana
>
> I am not sure whether this is a correlation equals causation fallacy, or
> whether it simply is that my strange perception of the world caused my
> conlangs to develop as they did, but I did notice some differences. It is
> not easy to tell, but for example I feel that I compare 'rejistanian' in my
> thoughts and since I invented the alsi- comparisons, I tried to translate
> them into the natlangs, I use quite often because something is just so very
> clearly 'alsina good'. (I do not know what the grammatical term for these
> forms of comparison is, but they are comperatives and superlatives, which
> indicate that the use of the adjective was only justified in the comparison:
> If I have 5 € and you have 5.10 €, none of us is rich but you are alsina
> rich han me.)
>
> I hope this makes some form of sense.
>
> ~M. Czapp
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