Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct

Daniel Andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...> wrote:

> nicole perrin wrote:
>
> > And speaking of another really strange quirky thing:  I
> > count letters, both in speech (my own and other people's)
> > and especially in print.
> I say words backwards (as they
> would sound if you played them backwards on a tape
> recorder).
People, are you alright? ;-)

Seriously, I have to admit that I do things to words too;
I substitute letters! Only when I'm thinking, not while
reading; I exchange <l> and <r>, <s> and <c>, <u> and <i>.
I think it began when I saw a Cyrillic alphabet for the
first time in a dictionary (I must have been nine or ten)
and noticed that many letters where similar to the Latin
ones that were familiar to me, while others were different
(C for S, handwritten 'u' for 'i', handwritten 'm' for 't',
etc.) At a time I felt really upset and worried that I'd
end up talking to myself in strange words. (Now I also
talk strange words to other people, so I guess I'm a
lost case already :).


--Pablo Flores
  http://draseleq.conlang.org/