Re: history of conlanging (aka Conlang influences,aka Lest darkness fall)

Christophe writes>>>>>>
FFlores wrote:
>
> Oh, and I didn't collect dolls... except the He-Man ones, but I
> was disappointed at their small versatility. I preferred ones
> that were called PlayMobile (here), which came with many accesories.
> Me and my brother made whole cities of them, with official currency
> and all. :)
>
        I was fond of LEGO, which are by far the most versatile game of all
time (what is more versatile than buying bricks and constructing
whatever you want with them :) ). I had also all those Transformers and
other changing robots :) . And I used my LEGO mostly to create my own
sentai series (you know, those Japanese live action series we had in
France and that Saban used to make his Power Rangers nonsense). I never
had a brother (I have a sister, but she has never been interested in
LEGO or such), nor a best friend, that may be why I never created entire
societies with the bricks I had (and still have, they are in a closet at
my parents' apartment).
<<<<<<

Lego made a very deep imprint on both my brother and me.  He (at 21 years of
age) still buys and builds the darned things with the same fanaticism that makes
other grown adults build airfix kits.  I consider myself on (very marginally)
higher ground in that my remaining Lego obsession only consists of occasional
tinkering with Lego Technic.  Another thing that played a big part was (I think)
called Robotix.  It was something like Meccano and Lego Technic, more like the
latter.  You had figures that were basically compatible with Star Wars figures,
and pieces of fairly robust plastic (with octagonal ends) that snap-fitted to
make vehicles, structures and so on.  The resultant constructions looked a
little like Doozer buildings, (yay, Doozers!) but they worked.  Oh, and Linkits
were kinda groovy, as well.  And Zoids.

My word, I never realised quite how much of an INTP life I'd actually lived,
until I began to reel off this list! <G>

ObConlangingContent:
Some of my earliest attempts at linguistics were realising how similar bits of
the French and English were on Zoid instructions.






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