Re: CHAT: The profile of a conlanger

Paul Bennett wrote:
>
> I don't know how much credence y'all might give this kind of thing, but I'm
> interested in the "meta" of conglanging, as measured in as many ways.
>
> http://www.keirsey.com/cgi-bin/keirsey/newkts.cgi
>
> This classifies "temprament types" into 16 groups, and though this kind of
> labelling can easily be denigrated, IMO it might be at the very least fun to see
> if we can add another trait to the "profile of an average conlanger" that was
> apparently arrived at a while ago.  Lars mentioned it when we were in London,
> and IIRC it went a little like this:
>
> male
> non-hetrosexual
> left-handed
> goatee-wearing
> dark-haired
>
        I tried it twice, changing the answers where both possibilities seemed
good for me, and I happen to be each time Idealist: NF and Healer: INFP,
which is also the same as I did it last time (more than six months ago),
which makes me a rather consistent person :) . I think the descriptions
of those temperaments correspond to me very well (even for my relations
with my family, when they say that I feel like being the ugly duckling),
and the explanations of Ed Heil fit very well my way of conlanging I
think. Interesting test, at least it works well for me.

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