> Like other people, I guess, I think that the words I choose in some way
> "sound like" their meaning. Probably this is nonsense, but here's a
> small test...
>
> These are all colour words.
>
> clasant sayl sint lath yev
> sharf plenin murud celif sharday
>
> Here are the meanings (mixed up). Which goes with which?
>
> yellow black green blue-green purple
> white brown pink red blue
>
> --
> John Fisher john@drummond.demon.co.uk johnf@epcc.ed.ac.uk
> Elet Anta website:
http://www.drummond.demon.co.uk/anta/
> Drummond ro cleshfan merec; fanye litoc, inye litoc
You know what? Our connections between the words could be in a very big way
influenced by the English words themselves. Someone who only knows
something like chinese, i'm sure, wouldn't do well on this test...
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