Calling all synesthetes!

[cleolinda]

This is going to take some explaining, so I'll go ahead and throw it out here on its own right now: heyorion is looking for some synesthetes to take a battery of online tests ("All the info I need from people is the synaesthesia battery completed, their age, sex and mother tongue. Sadly, I can't offer any payment, but people get to see their own results

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[celestineangel]

Does it count if China is green and Spain is yellow?

[cleolinda]

I would think so, hee.

[celestineangel]

England is mostly brown with some greyish stuff in there, too. :D

[celestineangel]

I meant the actual countries, by the way, not the words. o.o I just realized there might be some confusion there. Actually, it might be the words, now that I think about it... just a general feeling of "green" and "yellow" when I think of those countries.

I never really thought about it in detail before this. ^_^*

[celestineangel]

Intriguing! Again, I'd never really thought of it in detail before this, it was just something I realized in a conversation with a friend about a fanfic I was writing that took place in Mexico (which is also yellow, but a deeper, more golden-orangey yellow than Spain).

I babble now. Sorry. ^___^

[celestineangel]

I think it has more to do with my perception of the general weather/temperature than the languages. Both are warm/sunny places to me, and like you said, Mexico is hotter so it's a warmer tone.

China... I must be thinking of trees and fields of green stuff maybe?

Those are the only countries that pop out at me as having colors, at least right now.

[amanuensis1]

But Spain is red!

[celestineangel]

Nooooo! It's warm and sunny and YELLOW.

[amanuensis1]

No, because Portugal is purple! Yellow would CLASH with its neighbor. :D

(Actually, purple clashes with everything, don't it.)

[celestineangel]

Purple does not clash with yellow! There are universities and schools with purple and gold (which everyone knows is really yellow) as their colors! They do not clash!

>.>

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I suppose it depends on the yellow and the purple. But I stand by my Spain is yellow assertion!

[etymological]

I think for my country-color associations, it's often a lot to do with what colors the countries are most presented with, like, China is obviously red and yellow. Spain is yellow, Russia is brown, northern Africa is yellow and gold and red and tan and blue, while central Africa is green and southern Africa is pale yellow and blue and white. Central and parts of South America are green and blue (like rainforests and ocean, I guess?). Australia is like, obnoxiously orange. Ireland is not green, though - it's blue.

[celestineangel]

See, Russia is red for me. >.> The others, I haven't had opportunity to really consider what they are to me, but I would have to agre on Africa and South America, I think, mostly because that's what's on a map... funny how some of them are like "Okay, sure, we'll be what's on the map" and others are "NO. I AM GREEN, DAMN IT." :D

Australia would be the obnoxious one, wouldn't it? With their funny counter-clockwise turning toilets and backwards seasons and stuff.