Re: Sounds like...
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 18, 1998, 2:00 |
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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Garrett wrote:
> John Fisher wrote:
>
> > 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
blue-green pink purple yellow brown
> > sharf plenin murud celif sharday
black white green blue red
> >
> > Here are the meanings (mixed up). Which goes with which?
> >
> > yellow black green blue-green purple
> > white brown pink red blue
> >
>
> 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...
>
Okay, let's test that...my first language was Hungarian, and I have 9
others. Let's see how I do.
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