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Re: Sounds like...

From:Josh Roth <fuscian@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 18, 1998, 3:12
In a message dated 11/17/98 7:33:09 PM, john@DRUMMOND.DEMON.CO.UK writes:

>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
clasant-yellow sayl-pink sint-green lath-blue yev-blue-green sharf-white plenin-purple murud-brown celif-black sharday-red
>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
Josh