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

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... Worse, at the
single occurrence where I addressed a group of scholars, I felt the
words flying out of me, and nothing stuck in my brain either. And when
the questions came, I had to keep referring to my notes ;-).

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://denden.conlang.org