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Re: Mental/psych problems (was: Suprafixes)

From:Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 19:57
On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 08:44 PM, J Y S Czhang wrote:

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> But the hardcore auxlangers didn't like mentions of either pidgins >> or "naturalism" - guess they are "control-freaks." >> >> There were a couple us, at least, there once upon a time. But, like you, >> we left :) > > Yep, I recall a few of us were there during the umpteenth Esperanto > vs. > Interlingua vs. Novial flame war. Cheekily, I brought up Tok Pisin * and > China > Coast pidgin
Why cheeky? Seems quite sensible to me (but maybe we shouldn't carry on _this_ particular part of the thread on this list).
> and then I had to rapidly evac myself outta there as the bigtime > Auxlanger flamethrowers suddenly zero'd in on me.
Ah, the days of the asbestos suit - happily mine is now gathering dust in some forgotten corner :) [snip]
>> The experience was, however, salutary. I regard my BrSc project very >> much >> the same way as I regard a demanding crossword or Latin Prose Composition >> when I was at school - it's an intellectual exercise. > > LOL. Likewise - believe it or not. If it is not both fun and cerebral, > why do it?
Amen!
>> Seen that way, it's an excellent antidote the stresses of so-called 'real >> life' - it stops the mental/psych problems dead in their tracks! >> >> Vivat Conlang :) > > True for most of us ;) But for some, it's replacin' one monkey (or > more) > with another. OCLD (Obsessive ConLanging Disorder) is one of the real > hazards > of our game ("The game is a-foot!...").
Heaven - and you guys on the list - preserve me from it!!
> Not gonna name anyone, but most of us who've been here for the past > 2-3 > yrs. know of at least one conlanger who is most definitely OCLD-afflicted > to > point of seriously impaired health due to long prolonged periods of > insomnia and > lingua-mania (in which - one time - he posted to the list like every 20-30 > min.s).
I recall that now. Too much idle time, methinks. Help - I'd better be careful when I retire next year :) Ray =============================================== http://home.freeuk.com/ray.brown ray.brown@freeuk.com (home) raymond.brown@kingston-college.ac.uk (work) ===============================================

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