Re: Conlang-to-body-shape connections

Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:

> Andreas Johansson 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!
> >
> > PS: FYI, I'm ~1.87, weighs ~68kg, tends to accusative languages, and
> > prefer SVO or SOV syntax.
>
> Pardon me for not taking part in the survey earlier....I'm a bit shorter
> than you (~1.75 or 5'9) same weight; accusative pref., SVO or VSO/VOS.  No
> SOV.
>
> Je ne bounce jamais.  Quite phlegmatic in nature, with a side-order of
> melancholic.
>
> Does this help? :-)
Lessee... I'm about 5'9" (1.75m), about 11 stone (70.5kg) which makes me
slightly overweight, but not by much and Operation Buns-of-steel is taking
care of that for me. :-)

Conlang preferences... hmmm... VSO, SOV, and EVA with ergative languages.
Like odd stuff like triggers, switch reference, 'n stuff but I'm very
conservative with phonology and phonotactics.

Anything but phlegmatic, whatever my outward appearence may seem to most.
Unipolar, and obviously quite melancholic too for the most part. I am though
surprisingly bouncy, but only if I'm in a very good mood or around the right
people.

I've been wearing glasses for the past six or seven months or so, though
according to the optometrist I probably needed them long before that. Damn
these computer screens!

That covers everything, right?

K.

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