RE: Most annoying word

Subject: RE: Most annoying word
From: "Clare Turner" <cturner -at- redflex -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:44:57 -0700

<snip>some people--I'm one of them--actually do "see" the words spelled
out
when people talk. It's like there's a marquee inside my head, on the
inner
surface of my forehead, on which the words are projected when I hear
words
spoken

OK, I can't resist - do you smell colors, too?

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Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 1:37 PM
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Subject: Re: Most annoying word

At 09:57 AM 2/28/2006, arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com wrote:
>And, actually, Dr. Suzette Hayden Elgin has a very good explanation for

>why people say "you see what I'm saying" or "do you hear me" and so
forth.

And some people--I'm one of them--actually do "see" the words spelled
out
when people talk. It's like there's a marquee inside my head, on the
inner
surface of my forehead, on which the words are projected when I hear
words
spoken. Including punctuation.

I didn't realize it was an unusual thing until I was in college. I was
studying Hebrew, and I mentioned to a friend that I was getting confused

trying to figure out whether to see the Hebrew words in transliteration,

from left to right, or in Hebrew letters from right to left. After that,
I
got quite a few blank stares when I asked people whether they saw the
words
spelled out in front of them when they heard other people talking. The
strangest thing is meeting someone and later finding out that they spell

their name differently than I pictured it.

martha

--
Martha Jane {Kolman | Davidson}
Dances With Words
editrix -at- nemasys -dot- com

"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
--Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 (translated by Sheets/Tovey)


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