Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct
| From: | Don Blaheta <blahedo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 8, 1999, 8:18 |
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Quoth Gerald Koenig:
> Anyway, I stumbled across an article yesterday on synesthesis in
> Discover Magazine that got me thinking. I read it because I used to
> meet every week in a class with someone who mentioned one day that she
> could taste my words. I could hardly imagine that. According to the
> article she is not alone. Here is a table from the article that
> describes 175 synesthetes:
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> Numbers and letters evoking colors 69%
*WOW*. I always thought it was a bit weird, but I do this, and never
realised it was a widespread thing. I see some words but *especially*
numbers as colours. Or rather, shades of grey. I had no idea other
people did too!
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