Re: Futurese: Colours

Javier wrote:
> >I think you've misunderstood this. Unless I've been totally misinformed
>by a
> >number of sources, it's our brains, not our ears, that become sensitized
>to
> >phonetic differences relevant to our native language, and desnsitized to
> >other ones.
>
>Of course! I used "eyes" the same I used "ears".
>Unless you have some disfunction in them, they can
>perceive all colour differences and all sounds.
>But anything about language is a matter of neuronal
>processes, so I think it would have been clear that
>when I talked about "eyes" and "ears" I was talking
>about our _mental_ "eyes" and "ears".
"Mental ears" and "mental eyes" are not things I typically speak about.
Infact, I can't on the top of my head think of any earlier instance I've
heard anyone else speak about such the way you did either. In short, I took
an (to me) unknown idiom literally.

(BTW, you don't actually mean that our (physical) eyes and ears "can
perceive all colour differences and all sounds", or so I hope. Our eyes can
only detect a few million _nuances_ (forgetting the English word) within the
visible spectrum out of the practically infinite number of possible
radiation spectra, and those aren't even evenly spaced. Our ears similarly
has restrictions on what differences they can detect.)

                                                 Andreas

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