Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct

>From: Sally Caves' <scaves@...>'
>Subject:      Re: The Conlang Instinct
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>As for synaesthesia:  I display it, too, with colors and personalities
(thoughtful post deleted)
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>As for whether any of these creative and burdensome gifts are components
>in conlanging, I simply don't know, but it's an interesting question.
Well, since these creative and burdensome gifts seem so prevalent on
Conlang, way beyond their incidence in the general population, why
don't you collect some data and include it in your work with the
Lunatic Survey? No one else seems to be championing our cause, and one
thing seems clear, being synesthetic or dyslexic or hyperlogical or a
collector of words and languages doesn't make one crazy. In fact we may
just be in touch with some hidden realities.

Jerry
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>Sally
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