Re: Help! Phonology From Hell!
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 25, 2001, 18:27 |
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Tristan wrote:
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>At 02.43 p.m. 24.10.2001 -0400, Andreas wrote:
>>From the poster so far, it seems that conlangers are a good deal beneath
>>average when it comes to watching the telly. Anybody feel to attempt an
>>explanations (other than our general weirdity ...).
>
>TV is boring and it requires a certain amount of intelligence to realise
>this?
"TV is boring" is kind of a very general statement, isn't it? I find almost
all programmes death boring, and yet the few exceptions are enough that I
spend a couple hours per week watching the thing.
You assume that conlangers on average are brighter than the population at
large, I see. While I'm inclined to think the same, I don't think there's
any statistical evidence for it. I'd guess that conlang correlates more
strongly with what you may call "artistic personality" than with high
intelligence (me being the exception - nobody I know 'd call me artistic,
but they'd agree I'm quite bright in the math/logic sense).
>But watching TV isn't as popular as you might think, at least with
>seventeenish-year-old people in Melbourne, Australia.
According to figures I've seen, the average westerner watches TV 1-2 hours a
day.
Andreas
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