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Re: Help! Phonology From Hell!

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Friday, October 26, 2001, 7:24
At 02.27 p.m. 25.10.2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >TV is boring and it requires a certain amount of intelligence to realise > >this? >"TV is boring" is kind of a very general statement, isn't it? I find almost >all programmes death boring, and yet the few exceptions are enough that I >spend a couple hours per week watching the thing. > >You assume that conlangers on average are brighter than the population at >large, I see. While I'm inclined to think the same, I don't think there's >any statistical evidence for it. I'd guess that conlang correlates more >strongly with what you may call "artistic personality" than with high >intelligence (me being the exception - nobody I know 'd call me artistic, >but they'd agree I'm quite bright in the math/logic sense).
I wasn't being at all serious! It was meant in purely in jest. You appear to have taken it much to seriously. I realise that there's going to be non-conlanguers who are intelligent and conlanguers who aren't so.
>According to figures I've seen, the average westerner watches TV 1-2 hours a >day.
Then there must be people who are glued to the idiot box all day... Tristan