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JazzGirl
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I agree that "F" is male! That''s strange that we all agree. Does anyone feel that "F" is female? |
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beth.in.blue
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I know it's really interesting about F!
And something I was wondering about while reading Kela's post: Kela, your G and 6 are both green. Mine are both orange. Do you think it has to do with their shapes being similar? Anyone else have letters/number with the same color and similar shape? |
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pinkcapricorn
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| beth.in.blue wrote: |
| Anyone else have letters/number with the same color and similar shape? |
The colours are not exactly the same but similar:
'I' and 'l' are both purple, but 'I' is also bluish.
r, n, m - all different shades of red, m looks paler than n.
d and b are both orange red, but d is more redish.  I sometimes confuse these two letters. It also happens with t, which is red too.
s and z are both bright yellow. |
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teewhyell
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| beth.in.blue wrote: |
| Anyone else have letters/number with the same color and similar shape? |
Yup, sure do!
E & F - both are purple brothers
M & N - both are brown brothers
U & V - both are yellow sisters |
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MagentaRedBlue
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1 and I, as well as O and 0, are all white. The funny thing is, 1 is dirty white and I is pure white, while 0 is pure white and O is dirty white.
2 is green, and Z is sometimes green.
And I have a few sortas:
4 and D have very similar personalities- and D is the 4th letter of the alphabet.
M and N both have extremely strong, "spicy" colors. |
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JazzGirl
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Me too! My 1 and I are the same color. I never really thought much of it before! |
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MagentaRedBlue
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Oh, and I forgot to add- my F doesn't have much  , but it's definitely more male-ish than female-ish. |
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Kela
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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| beth.in.blue wrote: |
I know it's really interesting about F!
And something I was wondering about while reading Kela's post: Kela, your G and 6 are both green. Mine are both orange. Do you think it has to do with their shapes being similar? Anyone else have letters/number with the same color and similar shape? |
I definitely think my G and 6 both being green has to do with their shape, at least somehow. Also my S and 5 are close colors (S is blue, 5 is dusty blue-gray), my O and 0 are both black, and my 1 and I are white and very very very light blue respectively.
However, if I see a spiral that could be a G or a 6, I get no    response from that spiral unless it's part of a message where it's obvious it's supposed to be a grapheme. I have zero graph->color but tons of grapheme->color, and my brain can tell the difference in stimuli. It's like in that New Scientist article that Fogwolf posted about last week or so -- the concept behind the stimulus matters. I never thought about that before that article but it's really a cool thing to notice. |
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bandgeek22
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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my G is dark purple but 6 is bright green...
5 and S are both yellow...
A is blue, 4 is pinkish |
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beth.in.blue
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Kela wrote: |
| However, if I see a spiral that could be a G or a 6, I get no response from that spiral unless it's part of a message where it's obvious it's supposed to be a grapheme. I have zero graph->color but tons of grapheme->color, and my brain can tell the difference in stimuli. It's like in that New Scientist article that Fogwolf posted about last week or so -- the concept behind the stimulus matters. I never thought about that before that article but it's really a cool thing to notice. |
I know exactly what you mean and feel the same way - I don't have to see the letter at all...it's more the concept. and a shape similar to G and 6 (a spiral like you were saying) doesn't give my any synesthetic response. I think that's called "high" synesthesia (no better or worse than "low" synesthesia, just more concerned with concept). |
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Kela
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I hadn't heard of that as being part of 'high' synesthesia, but I guess it would be. A criteria I'd heard before was whether your letter colors stayed the same in words (and/or if the color of the first letter takes over the color of the whole word). By that reasoning I have low synesthesia, because my word colors often aren't related to the individual letter colors at all.
So I have some high and some low...what do you know, I'm a medium synesthete!  |
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beth.in.blue
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Oh ok, well that would make me a medium synesthete too! |
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tonya
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I'm here to break the trend! F is definately female!!! And she's not flirty at all--she's very rude and obnoxious! G is not an older version of C, and J is very kind and helpful and not at all judging.
As far as similar shaped graphemes having similar colors, mine don't seem to do that much. G is brown and 6 is orange. F is red and E is green. 2 is yellow/blue and Z is red. 5 and S are both red, though. |
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Kela
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| F is definately female!!! |
I don't know whether to  
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How about spirals? Do you get a color from spirals that are just spirals, or just from spirals that are clearly supposed to be a grapheme, or both, or neither, or etc.? |
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MagentaRedBlue
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As far as I know, I don't get any reactions from plain spiral spirals. If it's supposed to be a 6, then I'd see it as normal 6-colored. Ditto for G and 9. (And my colors for 6, G and 9 are pretty dissimilar). |
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