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| TerryW Senior Member United States Joined 6155 days ago 370 posts - 783 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 17 of 24 16 April 2011 at 3:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This is somewhat fascinating to those of us who "don't have the power," but I'm curious why you guys are bothered by the "incorrect color" of the cover of a book, but the black print on white pages doesn't bother you?
Shouldn't the color of the words or even the individual letters of text bother you as well? Would it bother you if the paper it was printed on was tinted some pastel color? I don't get the book cover thing. I don't think I'd like to drink cherry soda ("pop" to some of you) that is colored blue, but I sure wouldn't mind if it was red soda in a blue can (not that I ever look at the soda while drinking from a can). Heinz put out some colored ketchup for kids in the early 2000s. Googling "color ketchup," I find articles saying that kids love it, and that every time they put out another new ketchup color, Heinz' market share increased. But I don't find much past 2003, and I sure don't see it on the shelves anymore, so that was either hype, or kids' taste has changed. 
Edit: I may change my mind about this. Since these are color ketchup bottles, and not the usual clear bottle letting the actual ketchup show through, I'd really prefer a red bottle. Or would that be because I've been conditioned by seeing a clear botle of red ketchup in my fridge for my whole life? Edited by TerryW on 16 April 2011 at 4:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5133 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 19 of 24 16 April 2011 at 4:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
Black letters on white paper are so common we'd all have gone crazy a long time ago if we let it bother us. To me, black is just the neutral background color and my syn fills in the actual colors. It depends on whether you're an associator or a projector but for me as an associator, the colors are there in my mind so strongly that I can almost see them on the paper when I read. It doesn't bother me to see a couple of words or a text in a color other than black, because I'm not focusing on the individual words or letters, but a single word or letter in the wrong color does annoy me. I've never heard of a someone having a colored syn response to a piece of paper. Though, now that you mention it, if it's a square page of paper it should really be blue... ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5809 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 20 of 24 16 April 2011 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
The human eye has two types of photoreceptors (ie things that receive light), called rods and cones. Rods pick up brightness, whereas cones pick up colour. Rods and cones also differ in how they are distributed and used. There are more rods in the centre of the retina, the part we read with, because rods are good at picking up detail. There are more cones around the edges, because they're quicker, so good at picking up movement (a good demonstration of this was to look straight at a CRT monitor (no flicker) then look away, keeping the monitor in your peripheral vision (and it starts to flicker). So neurologically speaking, black and white really aren't colours, so a colour synaesthete should never have any problems with them. Or in practical terms they are, in ReneeMona's word, neutral. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5564 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 21 of 24 16 April 2011 at 8:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
Esperanto is green because hope is green. Not the word, the concept. (Plants in spring/after a rainfall.) Hope is such a strong concept that it dyes all concepts associated with it. ... for me. Spanish has for me the colours a day has when with every breath you take you add a fine layer of sandy dust in your nostrils. Association of memories override association of concepts, and those override synaesthetic assoociations. Opening a book that doesn't have the 'right colour' is a bit difficult but once I know that I can work with the content it doesn't bother me anymore. But I can't work with books that smell bad or have really colourful markings inside - I never highlight or underline passages myself because it hurts me to look at it afterwards. By the way, my mom wants the turquoise bottle, but only if it contains turquoise ketchup. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| PonyGirl Groupie United States Joined 4817 days ago 54 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 23 of 24 17 April 2011 at 1:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm not syn, but I would have a really hard time picking up a blue German book. German books should be red, orange, or yellow, green if you are daring. Blue would utterly throw me off and bother me. German is not a blue language! I'm sure warm "heat" colors seem perfect because of Germany's flag, but I have no idea why green seems more German than blue.
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5809 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 24 of 24 17 April 2011 at 10:58am | IP Logged | |||||
According to V S Ramachandran, we all are, and that's where language comes from. Think about it. How can reading be so similar to listening? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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