Re: Synaesthesia

Joseph Fatula wrote:

>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?

I noticed before posting, that my responses were disappointingly similar to
those already posted -- by Wayne Chevrier, Robert B Wilson, and Nokta
Kanto -- and that those were similar to each other:

>valien  WC: white RW: white NK: green/purple
>megraur WC: yellow RW: green NK: brown
>caelian WC: blue RW: yellow NK: red-orange
>seuthul WC: green RW: blue NK: blue
>caret   WC: red RW: red NK: red
>urgom   WC: black RW: black NK: black
Notice that all three agreed that |caret| is red, and |urgom| is black. I
tend towards these myself. Could it be because of the "-ret" sounding
like "red"? Spookily enough, "red" in Rhean is |kariz'| [kariZ], but I
think I ripped that from Russian "krazniy". For |seuthul| I am similarly
biased by |s'öl| and |zien|, "blue" and "grey" respectively.

>valien  M: yellow or white
>megraur M: deep red, purple
>caelian M: blue (I think I'm biased by "cael-"; it sounds "sky"-like)
>seuthul M: blue or grey
>caret   M: red
>urgom   M: if not black, then definitely brown
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