Re: Sounds like...

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
>    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 = green, a yellowish green
sayl = purple
sint = black
lath = yellow
yev = brown (?)
sharf = blue
plenin = pink, a real yucky pink
murud = brown (?)
celif = white
sharday = red

I felt when doing this as if my aesthetics were driving me to certain
choices... but i also felt my choices being moulded and constrained by
the options you gave me...

> John Fisher   john@drummond.demon.co.uk   johnf@epcc.ed.ac.uk
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Simon Kissane
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