Re: colour languages - maybe hair brained! :)


techrock wrote:

Has this been discussed before, should I post it to another group - no
jokes please! ;), is this interesting, or am I just _way out_ there? :)


It occurred to me that our way of conversing is based around speech,
even when reading, writing, etc. This is time consuming (in terms of
interpretation - it is said we think in pictures/visually) and prone to
problems when conversing with people in different languages.

I tried to think what would be more visual, rather than textual for
reading. Maybe pictures (kind of chinese I suppose) or colours. So
had a go with this:

http://goldenfeather.homedns.org/colour-language.html

Obviously fairly limiting, due to range of colours, number of words and
disparity between the colours. But then maybe, it is that we don't
associate the subtleties of colour, enough to warrant identification.

Or am I just drinking too much coffee! :)

Thinking, reading or writing visually isn't limited to colours.
Pictures, graphs, diagramms, TV, GUI, internet, sign and body language
(non-verbal communication) show the despotic role of the eye. In
addition information is communicated very fast and kept in memory
longer. Metaphor is central for language and memory. It is the spoken
picture. The number and code of the Colours vary from language to
language apart from the basic ones. The colour code is certainly
important to all languages. Don't forget the text itself was a picture
(pictograph).

.

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