Re: Conlang-to-body-shape connections

Andreas Johansson <andjo@F...> wrote:
> I'm afraid I'm unable to extract much amusing
> info from the data I got on peoples heights, weights
> and conlang preferences.  This is, presumably mostly
> due to the low number of respondents and the
> disparate descriptions of their conlang preferences;
> the theory can't possibly be wrong!
> Big people apparently tend to stick accusative
> languages, with shorter and thinner ones being more
> in favour of active ones and similar odd stuff. And
> VSO is unreasonably popular.
> The short-people-are-more-prone-to-bounce theory
> seems to hold water.
I am somewhere around 5 '5" tall and  ~115 pounds
(sorry I can't do metric.  All numbers are approximate
as I don't keep a close eye on them.  I always find
out and forget again.)

I think my conlangs are accusative, if I understand
correctly what that means (but I'm not sure I do).  As
for word order, I guess I like verb-middle. I have one
SVO (Ikanirae Seru), one OSV (pitaWiSa), and one
that's still undetermined, but will probably end up
having rather free word order, due to a fair amount of
inflection ("Old Starrish").

Bouncing... Well, I like skipping around, especially
on nice sunny days...

Rachel

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