VMs: Re: Was the author a synaesthete?

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmmmm........ The bells Esmerelda. And watch out for the hump.


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From: "ajb" <ajb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: 08 July 2003 19:11
Subject: VMs: Was the author a synaesthete?


> Hello
> 
> I wonder if our analysis of Voynichese fully takes into account the way
> the author's brain happened to be made up? Let us imagine that he (she?)
> had a highly idiosyncratic kind of cortical wiring, either native or
> occasioned by some kind of accident or incident, such that he perceived
> written words and language in a remarkably different way from most of
> us? Suppose, for example, that a written word or phrase which we may
> surmise to be a simple plant label (sorry!) was experienced directly and
> physically by the author as something like "that shade of bluey-green I
> particularly dislike, with a sort of sinister groan, the smell of old
> weasels, and that peculiarly uneasy inner sensation which usually
> immediately precedes major gastro-intestinal distress"?
> 
> It would certainly complicate matters........  Voynichese would then be
> both a private language and simultaneously a cypher, one which decodes
> itself transparently and automatically to the author only, and thus
> requires no physical key.
> 
> I over-dramatise my theory, of course, but I do wonder if an element of
> something like this might be an ingredient. (For example to me the very
> look of written Voynichese has always tended to sound like a sort of dry
> rustling, whereas this Courier face I type in usually rings like
> minuscule bells, mostly slightly out of tune.)
> 
> Are there any true synaesthetes out there who would care to comment?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Anthony
> 
> 
> 
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