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Re: Synaesthesia

From:Amanda Babcock <langs@...>
Date:Sunday, December 29, 2002, 5:16
Weighing in... I'm never sure I actually *have* synaesthesia, since the
associations are so faint and usually don't show up unless I'm thinking
about them -

On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:20:29AM -0800, Joseph Fatula wrote:

> valien
white
> megraur
some kind of gray
> caelian
red
> seuthul
brown
> caret
red?
> urgom
gray It's mostly affected by colors of individual letters. The "ie" of valien makes it white. "Megraur" goes blue-white-magenta-green-yellow-brown-green, so no wonder it's a muddy word :) "Caelian" is a mystery, as it contains no actual red. "Seuthul" has two u's, which are brown. "Caret" again contains no red - strange. But both it and "caelian" started with c, which is pink. "Urgom", I don't know, but in this case maybe it's more confusion with English, as both "urgom" and "megraur" contained g and r, and came across as gray to me (side note - I always want to spell it "grey" because a is yellow and e is white) even though g is magenta and r green (when it's not being purple). As for months of the year, they start at the bottom of a circle with January and proceed counter-clockwise. July-August is at the top, rather than just July, causing me to always think that August-December is six months instead of five; spring must be more crowded than fall :) This always annoys me when I see depictions of the Wheel of the Year in neopagan books, because they always start at the top and go clockwise. When I was growing up, I rationalized the counterclockwiseness as meaning that I was *inside* the clockface of the seasons, looking out. Amanda

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