Re: CHAT: Synesthesia

Dan Sulani wrote:

> On 9 Dec, Ed Heil wrote:
> >I've always thought three one was white, two black, three blue, four
> >yellow, five red, six blue or purple, seven yellow, and so on.  Not
> >all numbers have colors -- multi-digit numbers don't usually have any
> >particular colors associated with them.  Note that these are
> >associations between colors and *numerals*, not numbers.  I don't
> >associate colors with groups of three objects, four objects, and so
> >on.
> >
>
>     That's intriguing! Ed, do you speak another language(s)
> well enough to count in it/them? If so, do these associations
> hold when doing math in a non-native lang?
> What about conlang(s)?
The associations come from a time of my life when I had never learned
any other languages; I don't think I have anything associated with the
number-names in other languages particularly.

Ed