Re: Mental/psych problems (was: Suprafixes)

In a message dated 2003:11:16 10:39:37 PM, ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:

>On Sunday, November 16, 2003, at 05:02 AM, J Y S Czhang wrote:
>
>>     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 and then I had to rapidly evac myself outta there as the bigtime
Auxlanger flamethrowers suddenly zero'd in on me.

    * I had not encountered Bislama yet (strange, eh?)

>>> At least, I don't care yet. I may have a nervous breakdown somewhere
>>> along the way. ;-)
>>
>>     LOL! One of the risks of conlanging... a  good number of us here
>have mental/psych problems and take meds for 'em... (or should) ...
>
>The thing to do is not to take it seriously.  That was one of the problems
>on Auxlang: they all seemed take their favored IALs way too seriously IMHO.
    Another reason I was not exactly appreciated. My broad(-side) sense of
humour grated on the more anally-retentive there.

>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? (Hehe, ... and the brain is the biggest sexual organ, ya know...)

>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!...").
    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). Several of us - highly concerned - emailed him saying that he'd better
get some sleep and to get it ASAP. The Powers That Be on The List IIRC even
threatened to block his postings indefinitely till he could prove that he was
back to "normal."

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