Re: Synaesthesia
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 14:15 |
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On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, at 12:40 , James Campbell wrote:
> Any other synaesthetes here? I'm not myself, but I have an interest.
>
> [Mind you, after reading today's 236k digest, the letters are starting to
> change colour as I read them :) ]
>
<laugh!> Wow, you get a digest? I spend half my time deleting messages I
don't understand and don't have time to puzzle out. <sigh>
> I read about one synaesthete who was an artist, and whose work was
> inspired
> by her experiences of synaesthesia. Just wondered if anyone has a
> similarly-influenced conlang (or conculture).
Now *that'd* be neat. I don't think I'm synesthesiac per se unless you
count persistent association of sound with texture. (Unfortunately I'm
barely able to connect my visual processing with anything else in my brain.
I am the least visual person I know.) It may sometimes show in
constellation-clusters of vocabulary semantics but I've never explicitly
designed a conlang around it. Now that you mention it, though...<going
off to ponder> Thanks for the idea!
Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityfoveils.com]
http://pegasus.cityofveils.com
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