Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: Sounds like...

Eric Christopherson wrote:

>That's fascinating! I am kinda the same way, in that I unconciously
>assigned colors, genders, even to an extent personalities to letters
>*and* numerals when I was very little. I have always wondered if
>anyone else was like that (except for my cousin, who is also like
>that). The values seem to be arbitrary. For example, A and I are
>female; E, O, and U male. 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9 are male, and 2, 4, and
>8 female. Who knows why?
Interesting.  For me, A, I, and O are male, while E and U are female,
so virtually the opposite of you.  But when it comes to the numbers 1-9,
we disagree only on 3 and 4.  Here's my set from 1-20:

        1       male            11      male
        2       female          12      female
        3       female          13      female
        4       male            14      male
        5       male            15      male
        6       male            16      male
        7       male            17      male
        8       female          18      female
        9       male            19      male
        10      male            20      female

No idea where these associations came from...

Matt.

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Matt Pearson
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