Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct

Am 12/09 20:14  Gerald Koenig yscrifef:

> My wife thinks its more likely that you may have a form of dyslexia
> than OCD, and the counting serves to order the words under distracting
> conditions. She adds numbers skilfully when not distracted, but starts
> transposing numbers when the phone rings. Dyslexia is of some concern to
[snip]
> everyone I know who is dyslexic is very intelligent. I wonder if
> dyslexia is disproportionately represented on conlang also, giving
> another possible clue to our group identity. I'm coming around to And's
I have a tendency to transposed numbers when reading them out.  I don't
know if this is a form of dyslexia or not, but once since a person
called it such I've adopted that name for it.

- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

                      "Piskie, Piskie, say Amen
                   Doon on your knees and up agen."

                    "Presbie, Presbie, dinna bend;
                   Sit ye doon on mon's chief end."
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