!!! Interesting. So, I guess, it’s the visual processing of characters into language?
Does の have the same(-ish) color as any other letters or numbers for you?
Sorry for the continuing questions. I don’t have synesthesia, but I find it incredibly fascinating, just due to how different parts of the brain are activated when interpreting sensory input.
But can you expel the winds back out with the same strength?
Also, what about different alphabets? Is it a thing where all characters (letters, numbers) have color? Or is it like, idk, the mental processing of “this character means the letter C. The letter C, brain tells me, I recognize as part of language. Language begets words, which begets colors”?
This is super fascinating to me. Like, if you knew the phonetic sound a Japanese hiragana character makes, would you start to see that character in the colors that correspond with roman spelling?
Like の is prounced and spelled in the Roman alphabet as “no”.
Does の now have the same colors as “no”?
Would love some older internet gen input here: is this a “gen [whatever] is so [negative trait here] because they are [generation group]” or “younger ppl be stupid”?
Context: Am a millennial. At my first “real job” (as in, in the industry I got my degree in) I worked with ONE (1) other person, who was an early Gen-Xer. After developing a report with each other and becoming friendly, he lamented to me about how it seems like “millennials (not you, of course)” seem so helpless - like they can’t figure things out on their own. Always asking “where is-” or “how do i-” before even examining the problem at hand and/or the resources available.
This dude was a self-proclaimed “blue fish in a red sea,” and we worked with a wide age-range of sales ppl. I mention this, bc in the two years I worked with this nerd (and he was a fucking nerd, taking into account modern day and late 80s-early 90s standards of the term), his complaints about millennials never sounded like media parrot-speech. He was literally befuddled about the operational differences between generations.
It 100% seemed like an ageist thing. This was the late 2010’s, pre-covid.
I’m in my 30s now and am equally baffled when my teenaged niece (weird familial age gap - not relevant here) doesn’t know how to make the tap water hot when there’s only one knob instead of two. She asked outloud but I refused to acknowledge or answer her. Niece figured it out shortly on her own, as expected.
So-… maybe younger people are just, yknow, dumb? Or recognize that, when surrounded by more experienced others, it takes less effort to ask for guidance than to waste energy through trial and error-?
Not trying to prove a point here. Just legit curious if anyone older has had similar experiences and can offer insight into whether this is a “zoomers are-” or “younger people are-” observation.
… That’s. So. COOL! AHH- :D
so, if you were to start learning a new alphabet and accompanying language, those letters might begin to take on colors of their own, like with Cyrillic and Russian. Ahhh- that’s so strange and awesome! Er, well, to someone who doesn’t have synesthesia (me).
Thanks for answering my questions and being so detailed in your responses! Last question - does punctuation have any effect on the colors you see? I imagine punctuation symbols don’t do anything on their own, since they’d be just that - symbols. But if they’re used in the context of language/communication, are they affected by your synesthesia as well?