Re: Sounds like...
| From: | Raymond A. Brown <raybrown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 18, 1998, 19:29 |
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At 12:32 am +0000 18/11/98, 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,
Surely not ;)
>but here's a small test...
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>These are all colour words.
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> clasant sayl sint lath yev
> sharf plenin murud celif sharday
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>Here are the meanings (mixed up). Which goes with which?
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> yellow black green blue-green purple
> white brown pink red blue
I've deliberately not looked at the other answers - they're probably wrong,
anyway :)
It's obvious, ain't it?
clasant - pink
sayl - brown
sint - blue-green
lath - red
yev - white
sharf - blue
plenin - green
murud - black
celif - yellow
sharday - purple
Ray.