Re: CHAT: Synesthesia and conlanging (was Re: The ConlangInstinct)

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>
> On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Sally Caves wrote:
>
> > Frankly, I have that problem sometimes when I'm listening to English
> > spoken at learned conferences, where the discourse is Derridean or
> > Lacanian
> > critical theory.  Word arrows flying through me, nothing sticking in my
> > brain.  <G>
> >
>
> Oh, I have that too. I absorb the written word quite readily, but if
> forced to listen to the average scholarly speaker, whether he speaks
> English or Dutchish, I alway have to hope he just reads from his notes -
> the notes that he handed out in the form of handouts...
Add to that the problem that most academic papers in the humanities are
READ rather than spoken, and usually at high speed in order to get
finished
by the requisite twenty minutes.  I'm equally guilty of this.

Sally
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