Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Peter Bleackley wrote:

> OK, here's a slightly weird one for you.
> Khanga�yagon 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."
>
There may be a sub-conscious pun working there, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurvan :)

- Andrew.

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