Re: Personality type and conlangers

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.