Re: Synaesthesia

> - The letter F is blue, but a particular shade of blue that is hard to
explain.

 No, no, the letter F has the consistency of white bread! It's made out of a
common bread, while in color, except none of the part with crust! I went all
through this when my mother was bringing up something she heard on
synaesthesia not too long ago. She asked if the letter F seemed yellow to
anyone, and I said, "No, *L* is yellow, F is white . . ." My brother Alex
answered with the colors HE associated for the letters. If I remember
correctly, he viewed the letter C as red. She had been listening to it on the
radio near the bed with her husband, and told us about the program. She said
that during the radio program, they explained how many synaesthetics
perceived the numbers as going up in a straight line, then suddenly making a
sharp turn at 100. She then recounted how her husband, hearing that on the
radio, immediately said, "YES! YES! They're going straight up, and then they
suddenly turn straight at 100!" And she had never had that in her mind.

> - What color is Wednesday?
 It's blue. A rather light, blurry, sky blue.

> Here's a list of color words I chose
for their onomatopoeic (sort of) properties. They all sound like the color
to me, at least partly. What colors do they sound like to any of you? The
sounds are all standard Roman alphabet, c and g being /k/ and /g/, th is
/T/. All of them are stressed on the first syllable.
>
>valien
 Brown.

>megraur
 Purple.

>caelian
 Blue.

>seuthul
 Yellow.

>caret
 I think "orange", but I'm sure I'm only being too strongly influenced by
"beta carotene" and perhaps other words derived from this orange chemical.
But if I read "karet" I'd think more along the lines of green.

>urgom
 Red, DEFINITELY red.

 Here are some Kankonian words for colors, some in the rainbow, some
neutrals, and some a little more complex. Does each one sound like the color
it is? (Vowels are pronounced by the Are-bEta-ravIolI-gO-crUde system of
Spanish and Italian.)

blan
gudum
hilis
karak
kiul
kran
kratsh
likt
pluz
rahat
viriz
wowum
zilkas