Re: Conlangs: a window on the mind?

On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Mathias M. Lassailly wrote:

> and each vowel has a colour so I can see with my eyes syllables in
> color : a =3D red, i =3D yellow, o =3D orange, e =3D white, French u =3D=
 green,
> u =3D dark blue, French eu =3D light blue to light grey depending on
> consonnant.
I first thought that our vowel-to-color schemes were very different but
then I realized that you might be thinking of the English "long" vowels.
So your "a" is about [e], "i"  about [a], and "e" about [i].  Which makes
your colors for those sounds the same as mine!  Although I think my "o"
([o]) is brown and my Norwegian "o" ([u], French "ou")  is black.  Orange
is around English "a" in "hat" (Norwegian "=E6", [E]?.) I don't really ha=
ve
colors for the remainder.

Greetings,
=D8rjan.

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