Re: Conlang-to-body-shape connections

Well which are the relevant details? If it's just hight, weight and tendency to
bounce, I'm 1.7, 73, and not sure what is intended by "bounce". If you mean
fidgeting while seated, guilty. If you mean hopping ove object in my path
rather than walking around them, guilty. If you mean other, specify.

Conlanging preferences . . . Let's see. I have one totally isolating, tpoic-focus lang
called Tvern El. One highly inflecting case-ridden, tense-ridden, excessively
pronouned (mainly) SVOlanguage which can promote instruments to S and even
adverbs of maner to predicatehood while supressing agent, patient and
instrument. I have one moderately inflecting, SOV lang with vocabulary/pronoun
distinctions for addressing various castes. I have numerous sketches and now my
main poject is Carrajena, a Romance lang with all that entails. Carrajena is
the only one that isn't an alienlang. I guess my preferneces till now are
indeterminate except for preferring the bizzarre in phonology. I've sketched a
lang with no sounds but fricatives, one with only trills and clicks for
consonants and whistles for vowels (it was SOV, too IIRC and got a Babel text,
but nothing else), consonants limited to liquids, semivowels and nasals, the
kitchen-sink approach (my first lang at age 12), I gue!
 ss weird is my preference.

Adam
 Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:Quoting Adam Walker :

>
> Where is this survey. I'm always open to extrania.
It's me having a theory that body size (height and weight) affects both your
conlanging preferences and your likelihood to bounce around alot. To
participitate, just send the relevant details to the list, or off-list directly
to me.

Andreas

> Adam
> Jan van Steenbergen wrote:--- Danny Wier
> skrzypszy:
>
> > I'm the "big and tall" kinda guy. No further comment.
>
> Hehe. I'm "big and tall" too. 1.90m with some overweight. No bouncing.
> It seems that (among guys, at least) the tall ones are a vast majority
> here.
>
> > I'm a raging bipolar with schizophrenic tendencies.
>
> I used to be like that, but I have become remarkably (even boringly)
> stable
> since I passed 30.
>
> > I haven't worn glasses since grade school; that was for lazy-eye which
> was
> > corrected.
>
> I use glasses only for reading. I can as well read without them, but on
> the
> long term my head starts to ache.
>
> > And my favorite language, Arabic, [...]
>
> Hmm. Difficult question. I guess I should answer Tocharian, although
> Polish is
> definitely the language that I know best and that inspires me most in
> my
> conlanging.
>
> Jan
>
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