Grapheme Puns

Edit: I’m sorry if I miss your question, this post is getting a lot more attention than I expected and I don’t have a lot of time to reply to everyone :)

I swear I read something that said grapheme-colour synaesthetes score lower in spatial-reasoning tests than the general population, but I can’t find the webpage anymore.

1. does anyone know any accurate (but free) spatial reasoning tests?

2. does anyone know that where I could find a study on this?

Or 3) my fellow synaesthetes (grapheme-colour or not) - how is your spatial reasoning?

(The image above is there as an example of what I mean by spatial reasoning) (Edit: three of the answers are the correct shape, and three of them are wrong) https://www.parentingforbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/spatial-intelligence.jpg)

I have concept-shape synesthesia and a friend asked me today if that manifests as dyslexia “because I see my words in 3D space”. The conversation got me thinking and so now I wanted to pose the question to all of you!

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Some people see dull colors, while others see more vivid colors. Some people see more of a variety while others do not. Is there a particular scientific reason for this?

So I have grapheme-color synesthesia and my native language is English. I’m also a physics major. I’ve recently been working with equations that contain quite a few Greek letters and I noticed something sorta peculiar: I have very strong color associations for all of the letters in the Latin alphabet and also for numbers, but significantly less strong color associations for Greek letters. The Greek letters that are similar to Latin letters get similar colors, but the colors on letters like Γ, Δ, Π, Λ, Ω, Ψ, or Ξ are far harder to identify. This is also apparently true for me for other languages, as well. Is this the case for anyone else?

Hello, I'm Tormis, and I'm the guy who made a grammar book of the Isu language from AC Valhalla some time ago (here's the post). I'd like to share a small discovery about the Isu language.

Today I came up with a theory that could account for a few graphemes (characters) in the Isu writing system whose phonemic value and transliteration has not yet been revealed. Initially I was just trying to arrange the known vowels into a neat format, trying to make sense of the vowel system, but I noticed that the transliteration for four of the unidentified graphemes can be hypothesised. Here is a theoretical table of long-short correspondences of Isu vowels.

Concerning this table, a few things:

• Asterisks in the table linked above denote the theoretical transliteration of previously untransliterated graphemes.
• I theorise that the acute accent in the transliteration is supposed to represent long vowels, and this is reflected on the orthography as an extra curved stroke to the left. Following this principle, one could make a perfectly corresponding pairs of vowels just by using known Isu graphemes (i.e. without inventing a new, unattested Isu grapheme).
• In the table, the vowel with the circumflex accent is presupposed to be the 'long' counterpart to the vowel with the grave accent.
• The character for ü was posited thusly because reportedly the transliteration system has been revealed to include the character <ű>, by the creator of the language Antoine Henry himself through this post. In languages such as Hungarian, the long <ü> [y] is written with <ű> , and it would make the most sense for the short counterpart to be transliterated *<ü>.
• This theory can account for all the unidentified Isu characters save one, mostly by using existing characters and diacritics. This is linguistically natural and economical than positing, for example, that all diacritics represent different vowel quality (rather than length), or supposing entirely new Isu graphemes heretofore unknown.

Again, this is only theoretical and I could be totally wrong. I just wanted to share this finding with you guys, and

Color-grapheme synesthesia is when letters/numbers are colored due to the recognition of the them. For example, “E” is blue because the visual shape of E is blue. Upon recognizing the visual letter, “E”, it is associated with blue.

It seems I have an auditory aspect. Words can be influenced by the sound emphasis of different letters. Hard sounding A’s are red, soft A’s are pink, and A’s influenced by neighboring R’s are orange.

For example, Arnold is orange, as there is a strong ‘r’ sound. Aaron is red, as there is a strong A sound before you get to the ‘r’.

Another example-Arizona switches between orange and pink. If I put a stronger emphasis on the beginning of the word, it seems more orange due to the strong ‘r’ sound. If I put a stronger emphasis on the end of Arizona, it turns pink because of the soft ‘a’ and the end. Arizona is never red. There is little emphasis on the A by itself.

Color-phoneme synesthesia Both site’ and ‘cite’ for me are different because ‘s’ and ‘c’ are different colors.

Homophones look different colors because the letters are different. But if I had color-phoneme synesthesia, I would see homophones the same color. Rather than, what sound does this word have that determines the color, it is where the sound emphasis is.

So,is it color-grapheme synesthesia with an auditory component, or color-phoneme synesthesia?

> Compilers hate him!!!!

The trick: When 2 ASCII bytes in a row, first one is cluster.

The code: playground.

Test files:

• https://github.com/unicode-rs/unicode-segmentation/tree/master/benches/texts
• https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/1.0/emoji-data.txt

Is that trick legit? I'm working with graphemes but I don't know much about unicode stuff. I try to avoid clustering as much as possible, but for when I need to I'd like to make it as fast as possible. Brrr!

Can you find boundaries like that too?

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The words San Diego has always looked orange. S is pink, and D is purple. N is orange, which is a letter included in the city name.

Pakistan makes me think of olive green. T is green and there is a green in the word. The country flag is also green. When thinking of Pakistan on the map, I see olive green.

Brazil reminds me of green. There is no letter that is green in the name. The country flag is green. When thinking of Brazil on the map, I see green. The Amazon is in Brazil…that’s green.

The town in which I live in, starts with a W. W is green, however the word just reminds me of the color white. There is an o and u in the town name, they are sometimes white.

I am wondering if this is color grapheme or concept-color synesthesia?

1. Is there any Afroasiatic language that uses Chinese/Chinese-derived script?
2. Is there any Sino-Tibetan language that uses abjad script (Arabic, Hebrew)?

Thank you.

How do you see letters with some similarities to Latin like Greek or Cyrillic?

Cyrillic: А, Б, В, Г, Д, Е, Ё, Ж, З, И, Й, К, Л, М, Н, О, П, Р, С, Т, У, Ф, Х, Ц, Ч, Ш, Щ, Ъ, Ы, Ь, Э, Ю, Я

Greek: Α α, Β β, Γ γ, Δ δ, Ε ε, Ζ ζ, Η η, Θ θ, Ι ι, Κ κ, Λ λ, Μ μ, Ν ν, Ξ ξ, Ο ο, Π π, Ρ ρ, Σ σ/ς, Τ τ, Υ υ, Φ φ, Χ χ, Ψ ψ, Ω ω

What about languages that use symbols like Japanese or Chinese?

Ex: 猫 (neko-cat); 動物 (obustu-animal); 鳥 (tori-bird)

狗 (gǒu-dog); 兔子 (tùzǐ-bunny); 鱼 (yú-fish)

What about arabic?

ش غ ظ ذ خ ث ت س ر ق ض ف ع ص ن م ل ك ي ط ح ز وه دج ب أ

And for those who have Grapheme-color and can read Arabic, how do you perceive changes between Initial, medial, and finial letter? Same question goes for Mongolian (Mongolian script doesn't translate well to horizontal format, I'll let you look it up)

Here are some more alphabets for reference:

Armenian: Ա Բ Գ Դ Ե Զ Է Ը Թ Ժ Ի Լ Խ Ծ Կ Հ Ձ Ղ Ճ Մ Յ Ն Շ Ո Չ Պ Ջ Ռ Ս Վ Տ Ր Ց Ւ Փ Ք Օ Ֆ ո ւ և

Hebrew: א ב בּ ג ד ה ו ז ח ט י ך ךּ כ כּ ל ם מ ן נ ס ע ף פ פּ ץ צ ק ר שׁ שׂ ת תּ

Devanagari: क ख ग घ ङ च छ ज झ ञ ट ठ ड ढ ण त थ द ध न प फ ब भ म य र ल व श ष स ह

Hangul: ㄱ ㄴ ㄷ ㄹ ㅁ ㅂ ㅅ ㅇ ㅈ ㅊ ㅋ ㅌ ㅍ ㅎ ㅏ ㅑ ㅓ ㅕ ㅗ ㅛ ㅜ ㅠ ㅡ ㅣ

Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် (Republic of the Union of Myanmar)

Khmer: ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា (Kingdom of Cambodia)

Thai: ราชอาณาจักรไทย (Kingdom of Thailand)

Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ (Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia)

Do letters gain a color when you know the syllable they're representing? For example, if you knew "Θ" made the "Th" sound, would that influence how you associate or project?

I appreciate your feedback :)

For a bit of a backstory, where I live we have trains that have first or second class sections and their wagons are marked outside with giant numbers. One day I walked past and realized I didn't see any colour. I saw a big white 2 splattered across a yellow and blue train section, but I saw no spring green in my mind's eye like I usually do when I perceive 2's, it was simply how it was reality and nothing more.

It was strange and alien and this is the only situation where I've ever experienced this. Has anyone had similar experiences?

My personal theory is that the field of vision of my synesthetic eye is smaller than the field of vision of my ocular eyes, but I'm interested to hear other people's thoughts.

Since I have found Fennec have 2 trackers. Should I worry about it?

Exodus Screenshot for Fennec

I think the colors are based on common letters in their name I speak Hebrew and English, so Red | Adom -> d,m 4 Green | Yarok -> b,r 2 Blue | Kahol -> g,l 3 Yellow | tsahov with Sammehס and Tzadi צ 6 Even tho things like Orange | Catom -> p,f 7 Or Brown | Hum -> k, t

So maybe its just some of them, but it is interesting

My most obvious example is "lmaoooo".

I have vague memories of a linguistics class (one of my favourites) mentioning a similar aspect of communication regarding some tribal languages, some decades ago for me. Shows up in netspeak all the time and someone must have defined something so prevalent.

I am also interested in non-internet examples or highly amusing instances, if anyone cares to share.

I didn’t know where else to tell anyone this, so I decided here was the best place lol.

I wouldn’t really call this a HUGE problem, but this is just one way how grapheme color synesthesia sort of messes up my day from time to time.

I’m in school. The halls all have these signs with what set of numbers the rooms are. There’s the 700, 600, 500, 400, 300, 200, and 100 hall. My first class in the morning is in the 400 hall. The number 4 is dark blue for me, but 7 is purple for me. And basically one time in the morning my tired ass walked all the way to the 700 hall (which is on the other side of the school) instead of the 400 hall. When I got to the 700 hall I realized that I mixed up 7 and 4, not because I need glasses or because I think they visually look similar, it was because blue and purple are right next to each other and I mixed mixed them up. I wasn’t late for my first class though, thankfully!

I’ve also gone to the 400 hall instead of the 100 hall (my third class) a few times. 1 is sky blue with dashes of white here and there. I got one of my blue classes mixed up with another blue class, if that makes any sense. This has happened more than once.

Has anyone else who’s been to high school or college experienced this?

I am trying to find a software that could tell
-if the letter "y" in a word is a vowel or a consonant.
-Or if "ti" should be read as "sh"

I found multiple tool that return a list of phoneme but none that tell me which letter in the original word match each phoneme (an alignment).
I assume this is doable because this is essentially what speech-to-text tool are doing.

But I would like a tool that give me a list of matching pair (grapheme/phoneme) so I display the annotation on the the correct range of letter in the original word.

Which is heat provider and current insulator. AND only then on silicon attach radiators. What is Your opinion?

Feel free to suggest both practical (maybe brighter vowels, or odd digits) or fun (rainbow) suggestions.

I'm not a synesthete myself, but I am curious about how people with grapheme-color synesthesia feel about their colors, and I'd also love to hear the advantages/disadvantages your synesthesia gives you in general.

Hey guys!! My name is Maddie. I posted about my project a couple of weeks ago. I have put together a research project over Grapheme-color synesthesia/memory. The experiment will be over zoom/video call and will take less than an hour. We are preferably looking for english speaking participants (due to letters/symbols being used) with Grapheme-color synesthesia. We can be pretty flexible with zoom calls times and dates. In the zoom call we will show you a series of numbers, letters, or symbols. My group members and I will be recording your responses as to which colors you see for specific numbers, letters, or symbols. After your first zoom call, we will send you a follow-up Google forms document. After we receive your Google forms document, we will need to set up a second zoom call. In the second zoom call, we will be showing you a different series of numbers, letters, and symbols. After we gather the results from all of our participants, my group and I would be happy to share any information we find! Feel free to DM me any questions you have! If you are interested- DM me and I will send you my email and we will go from there!! Thank you!!!! Tell your friends.

Hello 🦀s,

I need your insight on unicode_segmentation::GraphemeCursor.

I have a text type as a Vec<String> where I know for a fact those Strings are clusters. I want to insert strs in this type (at cluster boundaries only), maintaining the clustering property.

I could .to_string().graphemes().collect() the whole thing but obviously this is bad. So I want to use GraphemeCursor as I understand it meets the purpose. Yet I am unsure how to use it, and I do not really feel confident with my understanding of Unicode.

So I need your 🧠!

About cluster segmentation, I assume the following is true:
With A, B and C: three clusters,
With T = [A, B, C] our initial text,
With S: an str,
After inserting S between B and C:

• A and C are not modified
• B may be pushed some bytes
• the cluster count may increase (with new clusters at insertion point), never decrease

Is this correct? Same thing but poorly formulated (ignore if gibberish): Do bytes group in clusters with their left neighbours only (C is not modified)? Can a boundary shift left when adding bytes on the right of the cluster (A is not modified)?

Kinda related: why does next_boundary() may ask for previous context?

Alright, some action! Following is toy code that doesn't do much, but demonstrates my understanding of the cursor thingy and showers you with questions: (playground)

    // [dependencies]
    // unicode-segmentation = "1.8.0"
    
    use unicode_segmentation::GraphemeCursor;
    use unicode_segmentation::GraphemeIncomplete;
    
    type Cluster = String;
    struct Text(Vec<Cluster>);
    
    impl Text {
        pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
            self.0.iter().map(Cluster::len).sum()
        }
    }
    
    pub fn main() {
        // The initial text
        let text = Text(vec[
            Cluster::from("a"),
            Cluster::from("b"),
            // <insertion point>,
            Cluster::from("c"),
        ]);
    
        // The inserted text (\u{0301}: a combining accent)
        let add = "\u{0301}aaa";
        // let add = "aaa"; // The simplier case
        let at = 2;
    
        let mut c

For me the letter O varies depending on the context, it can be either really light blue or even bright orange. I think that's probably because it's similar to 0 which I think of as transparent. Same thing with the letter E and number 3. They are similar shape, so both are green. Then there's also B and 8 which are orange.

Do you also have this connection with shapes and the colours in letters/numbers or are they mostly different?

New grapheme color form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffMwBZis0BFx6PY8e_Z7gGluDKJ-MIlXlOTCOb21k0Ay9qqw/viewform

Also, here are the results for the synesthesia form I posted a few days ago. I got 95 responses and I'm VERY VERY grateful! Also, I'm not gonna spam forms (even if I want to impulsively) It's just very soothing to look through responses and I get to share a bunch of data with you guys :]

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I was just wondering if anyone else relates to these:

• Not all letters have colours

• Some letters only have colours in certain circumstances

• Sometimes if a letter's colour is very strong, it will sort of bleed into other letters, particularly those without a strong colour themselves

for example: in the word 'day', A is a very strong, bright red, D is slightly less strong, and Y has no colour. however, because it's close to A, Y is slightly red, even paler than D but still red. or in the word 'Yiddish', I is a very bright yellow, which makes the Y a slightly paler yellow.

does anyone else relate to this?

Grapheme-colour synesthesia means that I associate colours with letters, words, days of the week, numbers, names, etc.

I have heard that while grapheme color synesthesia typically has letter-color associations, when arranged into words the entire word has one color, often determined by the first letter of the word.

How is that like phenomenologically? Like, does the whole word take on the color in the mind's eye? Or is there simultaneous perception of a uniformly colored word and of the letters' individual colors peeking through. Is the word actually uniformly colored, or is there like some light-dark gradient there, too? Are there other coloring rules rather than first letter dominance, and do you words get colored primarily by one rule or multiple ones? Are there certain words that for whatever reason struggle to take on a color and leave you seeing only the letters' colors?

For example I associate a lot of letters or names with colors, but these are more like subconscious associations I don't actually "see" anything when I'm looking at a name but when I think abt it I almost always have a certain color to asign it to. But how do I know I'm not just associating certain letters with colors due to my experience or due to me at some point linking them together for some reason?

e.g. I see the letter y as pink, how do I know I didn't just associate it with pink because at some point I knew a girl whose name started with y and she liked wearing pink?

I thought of this because I just started an intro class to programming this week and have the same type of synesthesia. I think looking for certain words in the overwhelming amount of code is difficult (lol it was for my instructor) but I wondered if actual coders with synesthesia get a bit of an easier time with it when categorizing 'branches' of the code in color and identifying words faster 😅

For example, for Slovak, I can think of "sôvä" [sʊ̯ɔvæ] (an owlet), "ďateľ" [ɟaɟeʎ] (a woodpecker), "kŕdeľ" [kr̩ːɟeʎ] (a flock) or "tŕň" [tr̩ːɲ] (a thorne).

i know this isn’t r/ama however i thought i’d try putting this on here

I’m 100% sure I have grapheme-color synesthesia because I associate letters, numbers, days of the week, months, years with colors. But I also associate movie titles, video game titles, names, song titles and pretty much any word, label, phrase, sentence with color.

I also can hear music VERY clearly in my head and I’m able to vary the pitch, tempo and instrument. Song titles have a color (usually related to the album cover color) but sometimes take a distinct color of their own). The colors that anything take on is usually related. For example, the color of the month June and the number 6 are both yellow for me. The color of the song “Jump then fall” by Taylor swift and the letter J are both orange, etc but not always.

Does this imply only one type of synesthesia?

Hi everyone! My name is Maddie. I am a college student from Texas. I am putting together a research project over Grapheme-color synesthesia/memory. The experiment will be over zoom/video call and will take less than a hour. Preferably english speaking participants (due to letters/symbols being used) with Grapheme-color synesthesia. Anybody interested in participating?