Re: CHAT: Re : CHAT: Conlanging and Myers-Briggs tests (was Re: Profile of a .

At 08:30 14/05/99 EDT, you wrote:
>Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 13/05/99 20:45:09  , Dan a =E9crit :
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><<  For example, question one: "Do you tend to choose..."  Hey, I could
> see myself doing both choices: >>
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>Same to me, especially for "I" and "E" criteria. I'm both observant and=20
>introspective. I had a very funny experience about that : I had a=20
>"personality" training when joining a firm. One exercise was to walk around=
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>and be "observant" and "introspective" alternately and other trainees would=
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>try and guess whether you are "outside" or "inside". All of them thought I=
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>was continuously "outside" (i.e. "observant") when I was actually both=20
>"introspective" (i.e., mostly conlanging, as I did not tell them;-) and=20
>"observant" (I can still vividly remember a pair of nice trainees). I told=
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>that to the training tutor an she just told me : "this is not possible, you=
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>MUST be either "outside" OR "inside", otherwise you have problems". My only=
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>"problem" looking continuously "outside" is that I can't walk 1 minute in
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>streets of sunny Paris without being asked the way to go there and whether=
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>have a few bucks man, and "beeru za Shaneru shoppu izu", etc. And I enjoy
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>Me outside : "Chanel shop ? Follow me : I'll show you. Beeru aru yuu furomu=
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>?"; and inside : "(to go to and from : is that a bound pair of verbs ? Why
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>Jap girls have curved legs already ?)".=20
>I dare suggest that Didier and Christophe (the two other conlangers I meet=
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>sometimes) are like that too : they are very observant of what happens
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>them and at the same time they can "process" it into their own conceptions=
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>I could record a video of Christophe conlanging while watching TV, and
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>explained to me he was conlanging "efficiently" only when he had a lot work=
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>to do at the same time. =20
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>Mathias
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        You dared well Mathias :) . I indeed work better (whether at conlanging or
anything else) when I do other things at the same time. Generally, when I
want to work, I first turn my TV on, put a novel I'm reading not far from
me, add somewhere the text of the short story I'm currently working on, the
drawings I'm trying to do, my conlanging work and my student work :) . It
does bother my friend as he can't understand that I'm more efficient when I
do many things at the same time (maybe I'm multitasking :) ). Also, my
brain never stops working (even when I'm talking to somebody). It is always
switched to the conlang radio (currently working on Notya BTW), the Sailor
Moon radio (when it is, I just remember Sailor Moon's musics as if I had an
inner walkman!), the Rainbow Fighters radio (my own drawings) or the short
story radio. And I'm able to sustain a conversation while doing it! (even
if sometimes, of course, I lose track!). It's even a problem when I'm
trying to sleep, as my brain carries on working, impeeding me to sleep.

        BTW, I did the Myers-Briggs test but I don't remember exactly the result
(I was very balanced if I remember correctly), but I did like it (in fact,
as it was pointed on before, the test didn't learn me anything about
myself). I am a little depressed (it began with very difficult events I
couldn't get through without harm) but generally feel good. In fact, I like
when people say I'm not like anybody, even if they were critisizing. I find
saying that someone is "normal" the worst insult you can find (I should add
that idea in a conlang! :). And I'm not kidding. I also consider myself as
being a somewhat naive and innocent person (with a good meaning, a little
like the "honn=EAte homme"), generally frank and straightforward (but I'm no=
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so easily tricked!).

        To conclude, I must be as complex as any other person.

                                                        Christophe Grandsire
                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

"Reality is just another point of view."

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