The word "bologna" has always, and always will look weird to me! Imean...who eats BO-LOG-NA?? It's BA-LONE-EEEEE!!
It's strange. Spelling was always one of my worst subjects. Once I started chatting online with friends my spelling improved because I didn't want to look stupid, and I can now remember how to spell some very long impossible to sound out word and spell foreign words (that aren't adopted into English already).Originally Posted by laureen227
most of the time i have no problems w/spelling whatsoever - it was always my easiest & best subject in school... however, i have difficulty w/the word similar. that's the correct spelling, but it looks wrong to me. seems like it ought to be similiar, like familiar!
That's because aluminum is wrong wrong wrong. Elements do end in "ium" including aluminIUM!Originally Posted by strange_wings
Aluminum, likely because a lot of elements end in ium. I prefer to spell it aluminium, while that isn't incorrect it's odd because that is not the American spelling.
Originally Posted by Marianjela
And there are many times I've said a word and thought it didnt sound right. Ever see Tommy Boy when the nitrous oxide is leaking into the cop car they're driving?
ok that made my eyes cross over haha!Originally Posted by LilleKat
many many times - I also have the same problem that f I stare at a word too long it looks goofy - that and I have mild synesthesia, so I get it in colour too!
This is what my alphabet looks like:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
This is roughly what a sentence looks like to me
Or at least, this is as close as I can get to it with the limited colours we have on the website!So as you can see..... all of the words I stare at can get pretty goofy.
ohhhhhhhhh how many shades of pink are there?, is it harder too see certain colors than others?Originally Posted by LilleKat
it doesn't really suck - it makes the world a whole lot prettier!
im a minor (17 years old) so cant recieve PM's yet...Originally Posted by LilleKat
I tried to PM this to you Pixietina - but you can't recieve PMs.....
I don't know if you know, but synesthesia is where two senses get a little mixed up - for example hearing and taste - some people can taste music. Certain sounds will make them taste different flavours... for example my name would taste like strawberries or something like that. In my case it's sight and sound, my inner monologue will also bring it up - so different words come out as different colours. I don't necessarily see those colours physically on the page, but I see them clearly in my mind. As you saw, each letter in the alphabet has it's own colour... but when they are all strung together as words, there is a dominant colour for the sound of the word. "Colour" is a yellow word - even though individually those letters are yellow, black, black, black, orange, green. "Pixietina" blurs a bit like a ribbon from yellow, to deep purple and then screaming red on the very end where the "a" is.
My cats names look different too - Tosca is a deep pink-purple colour with a yellow twinkle where the c is and then a red flare on the end. Bootie is a deep blue with a white and peach flicker on the end. Rune is deep sea green. I think it all depends on the sound of the word.... if it's a harsh word, then I'll see harsher colours in abrupt shapes... the softer the word, the smoother and softer the colours. It's a very subtle difference in the colours.
For reference THECATSITE - is deep purple, bright yellow and soft forget-me-not blue. There is a red flare at the A and a soft peachy smudge at the Es... it's very pretty. One of these days I'll draw them all. It could make an interesting painting project now that I think about it. I wonder why I didn't com up with it before.
Is there anything else I might be able to explain to you, or just something you're curious about? A lot of people simply don't understand it at all - it's nice to meet someone who's curious! Most others think I'm slightly insane!