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ehabsa
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Message 9 of 31

10 April 2010 at 8:03pm | IP Logged

iknowchristalen wrote:

No,I don't have a color association with other objects, but all
roman letters and Arabic numerals have sexes associated with them: a=f b=m c=m d=m h=f
i=m j=m ect. 1=m 2=f 3=m 4=f 5=m 6= m 7=f 8= m 9=m ect. Just very strange.

In Arabic every "object" is either male or female not just numbers. But this is learned,
you learn that as you learn the language, and it is not a spontaneous reaction or
neurologically based as the experience of association of color is suggested to be. There
is nothing in the word itself that would give you any indication whether it is male or
female.

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ehabsa
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10 April 2010 at 8:09pm | IP Logged

Delodephius wrote:

When I was a kid I had this colour association for days of the
week (if I remember correctly Tuesday was blue, Wednesday was pink, Thursday was green,
Friday was dark blue, I don't recall the rest) and also months (mostly by which colour
prevailed like winter months were in different shades of grey and white, spring months
were green, summer months yellow and autumn months brown and orange).

Emotions too can be associated with certain colours so maybe there is connection
here.

I think that might be more an indication of personality/cognitive type. For me the
days of the weeks for the longest time where associated by an image based on the school
periods when I was in elementary school. Each day has some different image that was
broken down into different squares as you see in a planner. Saturday was half day of
school and I always have this short image of it in my mind.
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iknowchristalen
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11 April 2010 at 11:29am | IP Logged

I don't know anything about Arabic and it's male or female markers I used the words Arabic numbers 1234567890 to distinguish it from written forms of numbers such as 一二三四五 sorry for the confusion. Like Japanese and Chinese characters don't have these associated "sexes" with them.
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ehabsa
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11 April 2010 at 3:42pm | IP Logged

iknowchristalen wrote:

I don't know anything about Arabic and it's male or female
markers I used the words Arabic numbers 1234567890 to distinguish it from written forms
of numbers such as 一二三四五 sorry for the confusion. Like Japanese and Chinese
characters don't have these associated "sexes" with them.

Thanks for the clarifications.
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Yukamina
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11 April 2010 at 6:39pm | IP Logged

I have colours for languages too. There seems to be a strong connection between the colour of the first letter in the language name and the "colour" of the language, at least for languages I'm not familiar with.
French = light blue
German = green
Arabic = dark brown
Russian = red
Chinese = red and yellow
Japanese = golden brown, purple, red
Korean = pale yellows and greens

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Kyrie
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11 April 2010 at 7:14pm | IP Logged

Yes, I have this and I use it to my advantage because I tend to study more than one language at a time. So I associate Portuguese with green and German with purple, and whenever I write in those languages, I use either green or purple respectively.
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pohaku
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11 April 2010 at 7:45pm | IP Logged

I wrote earlier about synaesthesia, but it just occurred to me, in response to Kyrie's post, that I have my own color associations with languages for purely practical reasons. I keep a simple folder with two pockets for each language and I use a different color of paper for each language, so I have a lot of combinations: light blue folder and pink paper=Bengali, for example. Black folder and lavender paper=Latin. Green folder and blue paper=Arabic, etc. The system works great.
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iknowchristalen
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12 April 2010 at 8:29am | IP Logged

Dear Pohaku, Really like the idea of using different color paper. I just thought this morning it would be cool maybe to study with light of the same color, such as a stage light with those interchangeable films. Might be something to look into. Another idea would be to write in that color ink and I was thinking if one was to study on the computer that the desktop background might even be changed to the appropriate color. I would say this would be an easy thing to do with a mac, which lets to set a rotating background on time intervals (good if you like to study each language for a short amount of time).

Edited by iknowchristalen on 12 April 2010 at 8:30am

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