Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?

That's an interesting aesthetic challenge.  Are you familiar with Margaret
Magnus and phonosemantics <http://www.trismegistos.com/>?  She makes a
strong argument for sound and sense connecting, not being arbitrary at all.
 I toss this out knowing the controversy it can spawn  ;--}
RR

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Peter Bleackley <
Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote:

> staving RoseRose:
>
>  I'm personally of the Whorfian persuasion that different languages "cause"
>> different forms of thinking and different thoughts therefore arise.
>>  Having
>> been so deeply engaged with Glide for 10 years, I've noticed I parse the
>> world differently--see process, for instance, more foregrounded than
>> things,
>> flow more than form.  This is of course very subjective and not all that
>> easy to describe.  I am curious if anyone else sees effects in your
>> reality-sense that you attribute to your conlanging activities in any way?
>> Diana
>>
>
> OK, here's a slightly weird one for you.
> Khangaşyagon is spoken by wizards, who because of their magical gifts, are
> all synaesthetes. I'm not a synaesthete, but recently I was trying to think
> up words for herbs and spices. I spent a lot of time in my kitchen, sniffing
> at jars and trying to find a word that fit - or thinking up words and then
> searching for something that smelt right for the sound. My thought processes
> at one point went something like this.
> "zurvin... Is that cloves?" <sniff> "No, definitely not cloves. How about
> thyme?" <sniff> "Yes, that's right, zurvin is thyme."
>
> Pete
>