Re: CHAT: LEGO and co. (was: Re: history of conlanging (aka Conlang influences,aka Lest darkness fall))

Christophe>>>>>>
Paul Bennett wrote:
>Christophe>>>>>>
>         I was fond of LEGO, which are by far the most versatile game of all
> time (what is more versatile than buying bricks and constructing
> whatever you want with them :) ).
[snip]
> <<<<<<
>
> Lego made a very deep imprint on both my brother and me.  He (at 21 years of
> age) still buys and builds the darned things with the same fanaticism that
makes
> other grown adults build airfix kits.
        Well, I think I would behave the same if I had my LEGO with me instead
of at my parents' apartment. :) But now my interest is more on computer
games (console games to be exact. I'm a fan of Zelda on Nintendo 64. I
already completely finished it (except maybe one or two unimportant
secret places) but I still continue to play!). They are less versatile
but games like Zelda 64 amaze me.
<<<<<<

'Puter games I've tended to play recently:
Civilisation II
Civilisation: Call to Power
Age of Empires
Aliens vs Predator (always as the Predator!)
Quake 2 (I have an absolute wealth of Q2 stuff)
Repton (The Beeb classic, also found in SuSE 6.0)
Star Trek Ship Creator (good fun, but quickly becomes predictable)

Online, I'll sometimes stop by at Yahoo! Games for a spot of Gin, Go Fish or
Blackjack.

>>>>>>
>
> My word, I never realised quite how much of an INTP life I'd actually lived,
> until I began to reel off this list! <G>
>
        Does such a life work too with an INFP :) ? I never had any Robotix (in
fact, I even wonder if we had them in France) and even if the name Zoid
seems familiar to me, I can't remember what it is. But in fact, I was
more in LEGO, because I could buy more and more pieces and still use the
old ones. With the new LEGO Star Wars, I wonder what I could do! (maybe
an Imperial Ship :) )
<<<<<<

I've gone right off of "regular" Lego recently, ever since things started
getting silly.  If you haven't bought any Lego recently, I'd advise you go to
the nearest huge toy store, and prepare to be dazzled.  While a lego-man with
the face of the Voodoo Tomato TM (aka Darth Maul) preprinted on his head might
be cool, it should be a collectors piece, not an everyday item.

Zoids were build-it-yourself kits of clockwork powered creatures (dinosaurs
mainly, but also insects), with guns and cockpits.  Some of the big ones were
battery powered instead of clockwork powered, and had flashing-things.

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> ObConlangingContent:
> Some of my earliest attempts at linguistics were realising how similar bits of
> the French and English were on Zoid instructions.
>
        Tell me more about it!
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After spending much time following instruction sheets which were sequences of
pictures, with text below in both French and English, I noticed words and
patterns that appeared in consistent contexts (with some simlar spellings) in
each language.  Being naught but a wee lad, this had quite a large effect on me
psychologically, and I started to slowly and painfully learn enough French to
read how to build small plastic clockwork dinosaurs.  Soon afterwards, I started
spotting the same thing about (and between) other languages, and then saw a TV
program about Illiytch-Svytitch (spelling?) and it all fell into place.





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