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Re: Personality type and conlangers

From:And Rosta <a-rosta@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 23:32
Mike S:
> Stephen DeGrace <stevedegrace@...> wrote: > >- I don't know what to make of J/P in all of this, but > >I have a feeling that J may be a loglangy-predisposing > >factor ("we need a language with RULES dammit!! What > >IS this crap our natural language tries to feed us!?" > ><G>) and P an artlangy predisposing factor ("oooh, > >pretty!" <g>), so that in this prediction, Thinking > >Judgers would be the most loglangy and Feeling > >Perceivers the most artlangy. > > I am not sure about this. I am a perceiver who is strongly > predisposed to loglangs. I think the more likely distinctions > will be found in questions such as, how many conlangs one has > started but not completed? How much does one revise his or > her conlang? Does one stick with one's design decisions, or > is there a constant tempation to change one's mind?
You and Steven are managing to make this discussion topic rather less vapid than it has traditionally been. Can you outline what personality traits/types would (hypothetically) correlate with the conlanging traits you mention? If we can actually articulate some proper hypotheses, we can ask Peter to run a survey on it & get some half-decent statistics. (And then maybe we can get him to do a survey on who is gay, lefthanded and bearded.) --And.