Re: Help! Phonology From Hell!
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 26, 2001, 7:24 |
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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.
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>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