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L O W L A N D S - L - 08 September 2011 - Volume 03<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">From: </span><span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#5b1094">Hellinckx Luc</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a></span></span><br style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">
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Subject: </span><span class="gI">LL-L "Lexicon" 2011.09.08 (02) [EN]</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span>Beste Ron,<div><br><div><div class="im"><div>On 08/09/11, at 20:29, Lowlands-L wrote:</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">There is an interesting BBC report about color terminologies influencing color perception:<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b71rT9fU-I" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b71rT9fU-I</a><br>
</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Fascinating. </div><div><br></div><div>In
line with a point of view I expressed before: language does format your
brain (less so the other way round). And yes, I do know our brain is
not a computer and a metaphor is only what it is, a metaphor.</div><div><br></div><div>For
your interest, I have a new student this year who has strong
mathematical skills, and yet he barely knows how to calculate. The guy
makes brilliant movies and can grasp abstract concepts like continuity,
but somewhere along the line the aural (mathematical) information he's
getting gets distorted when it reaches his fingers (writing, typing).
Many of his family members have some kind of impediment, like ADD or
dyslexia. He doesn't, but in his case, mathematics is simply "red". Many
topics in his world get tagged with a certain color. It almost seems as
if color functions like a pre-speech vocabulary. Btw, he is very fond
of airbrushing.</div><div><br></div><div>Which brings me to
"metathesis", for some reason, apparently, many people (if not all) mix
up stuff at one point in time. Mix up numbers, write 97 instead of 79,
swap letters and say wasp instead of waps or even start reading from
right to left. You could call it whatever you like, but these linguistic
mutations (cf. gene mutations...copy errors) are rather rule than
exception. In some way, I think they are the driving force behind
language evolution. Essentially they are mistakes, but statistically
speaking they occur so often that they become like a thriving force (if
enough people make the same spelling mistake, spelling changes in the
end, no matter how conservative this spelling is).</div><div><br></div><div>From
next week on, I'll be attending a music history course, and I have high
hopes. Music, dance, poetry, language and math, I have this vague
feeling that they are different manifestations of one and the same
"defect"...so to speak. Struggling to explain the inexplicable. Will
keep you informed ;=)</div><div><br></div><div>Kind greetings,</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium</div></font></div></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>----------<br><br>
</span>From: Hannelore Hinz <a href="mailto:hannehinz@t-online.de" target="_blank"><hannehinz@t-online.de></a><br>
Subject: Lexicon<br>
<br>
Hallo all' Lowlanners,<br>
<br>
vielicht kann uns wat nu kümmt helpen:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/fileadmin/mimuc/mmi_ws0405/uebung/essays/maria.wagner/colouressay.html" target="_blank">http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/fileadmin/mimuc/mmi_ws0405/uebung/essays/maria.wagner/colouressay.html</a><br>
<br>
Hartlich Gräuten<br>
<br>
Hanne<br>
<br>
(Bün noch bannig wackelig up de Beinen...)<br>
<br>
Am 08.09.2011 20:29, schrieb Lowlands-L:
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