Re: CHAT: The profile of a conlanger

Well, I went to look and took it twice. The second time I only answered the
third of the questions I could actually answer. The first time it called me
an INTJ and the second time a ISTJ. It's amusing.
Sample question:
Do you tend to be more:
a. routinized than whimsical
b. whimical than routinized.
Well, when I'm doing my job, I have my routines. I often break my routines.
When i'm doing conlanging, I don't have any routines. But, I kinda like
routines, at least for the boring everyday stuff.
Or then there was:
Which rules you more
a. your thoughts
b.  your feelings
To which I would like to answer
c. your hormones.

Pfui.

At 12:15 10/28/1999 +0100, you 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
>
>Anyone who wants to share their results is encouraged to, either publicly or
>privately.  I turn out to be INTP, apparently, which I interpret as meaning I
>ought to be an auxlanger instead of an artlanger.  My earliest conlang
efforts
>were auxlangs, I suppose, so there may be something in it after all...
>
>
>
>Paul
>
>
>
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