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Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct

From:andrew <hobbit@...>
Date:Friday, December 10, 1999, 9:44
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
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> 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." - Attributions unknown.