!!! Interesting. So, I guess, it’s the visual processing of characters into language?
Does の have the same(-ish) color as any other letters or numbers for you?
Sorry for the continuing questions. I don’t have synesthesia, but I find it incredibly fascinating, just due to how different parts of the brain are activated when interpreting sensory input.
But can you expel the winds back out with the same strength?
Also, what about different alphabets? Is it a thing where all characters (letters, numbers) have color? Or is it like, idk, the mental processing of “this character means the letter C. The letter C, brain tells me, I recognize as part of language. Language begets words, which begets colors”?
This is super fascinating to me. Like, if you knew the phonetic sound a Japanese hiragana character makes, would you start to see that character in the colors that correspond with roman spelling?
Like の is prounced and spelled in the Roman alphabet as “no”.
Does の now have the same colors as “no”?
TL;DR - ELI5 why current reddit is bad, assuming I have no bias. Because I don’t, other than like minded community opinion telling me it’s bad now. I’d like to be able to express to others why, should the opportunity present itself.
Legit question -not tryna start shit/trigger intentionally: has this kind of reddit response ever happened before? Ive been on reddit for the past 10+ years, but as a comfy lurker. I remember “internal” reddit issues when the 3rd party thing was a thing.
(Quotes bc, from my POV as a lurker/casual user, the upset regarding reddit nixing 3rd party was too meta for me to really understand beyond “this is bad for reddit users”)
I’ve gained enough info by casual usage-proxy to move over to lemme. But ngl, im not grasping the magnitude of why “reddit is bad now”. I dont disagree, but i couldnt explain on my own to an outsider why i agree with that sentiment.
Obviously, censorship is bad mmmkay - I’m not questioning this. I have a gut feeling that making the switch and getting my global info from the fediverse is a good call. I just can’t express why, and am requesting assistance from the community’s exp in how I can express that. This seems like as good a topic ad any for a platform to discuss the matter.
… That’s. So. COOL! AHH- :D
so, if you were to start learning a new alphabet and accompanying language, those letters might begin to take on colors of their own, like with Cyrillic and Russian. Ahhh- that’s so strange and awesome! Er, well, to someone who doesn’t have synesthesia (me).
Thanks for answering my questions and being so detailed in your responses! Last question - does punctuation have any effect on the colors you see? I imagine punctuation symbols don’t do anything on their own, since they’d be just that - symbols. But if they’re used in the context of language/communication, are they affected by your synesthesia as well?