On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Joe wrote:
> So, how about getting some statistics together on the list? I just
> thought I'd ask some questions largely unrelated to conlangs.
>
> 1)Where were you brought up?
Melbourne, Australia.
> 2)Where do you live, countrywise?
Australia.
> 3)What is your nationality, as you see it?
Australian.
> 4)Where does your family come from?
Australia. (Maternal grandparents: the Netherlands; go back far enough on
Dad's side and you'll find yourself in either Scotland or England.)
> 5)What colour is your hair?
Brown. (Presently longish but I fear that in spite of no-one on my
mother's side being bald, and the fact that it looks like my mother's
father's did, I'm following in dad's footsteps and losing my hair. Or
maybe it's just thinning because it's summer or something...)
> 6)What colour are your eyes?
Vary between haze/brown and (very) green, depending on who's answering,
the light and other variables.
> 7)What colour is your skin?
That-which-is-known-as-quhite, but my face prefers to stay red enough that
in summer people sometimes think I'm burnt when I'm not, or in winter that
I look terribly cold.
> 8)Are you left or right handed?
Left for some task (including, quite noticeably, hitting the spacebar---
much more polished on the left); right for most.
> 9)What is/are your mother tongue(s)
English.
> 10)Are you fluent in any other languages? If so, which?
No. Though I know appear to know enough German, French and Japanese to
convince people who don't know them that I do (esp. the German).
> 11)Are you homosexual, heterosexual, or bisexual?
In all probability.
> 12)What (non-)religion are you?
> 13)What denomination of that religion?
None, though I am a baptised Roman Catholic.
> 14) Finally, what is your favourite colour?
Dunno ... varies...
- Beard? No.
- Glasses? No.
- Smoking? Hell no!
- Drinking? Yeah.
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Tristan