Which makes me wonder: is there a form of synesthesia that assigns colors (or other presentation forms) to different parts of speech?https://twitter.com/coolsweng/status/1002202676652924933 …
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Replying to @enf
To the extent that synesthesia can be trained (there was that study correlating number/color synesthesia and mass-market number/letter refrigerator magnets that many have in childhood, wasn't there?) I think definitely yes for anyone who went to Montessori schools.
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This stuff is permanently inscribed in my brain. I colored in so many worksheets identifying parts of speech like the second image here.pic.twitter.com/V1gJKslk8t
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Fascinating! (And totally different from the Reed–Kellogg sentence diagramming from my elementary school, or tree structures in college.) Do you see the shapes and colors when you hear/speak/read/write?
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I don't normally, but they are there with little effort. If a stranger walked up to me on the street and declared "a verb is a big red disc" or "a preposition is a green crescent" I would most likely agree and nod, feel these to be fundamentally correct statements.
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I think they mostly affect me when I think of the actual word "noun" "adverb" etc. they change the mood of those words themselves such that the grammatical terms have color and shape for me.
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