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27 Jan 2010, 11:41 am

This may seem a bit weird, but I have always thought of numbers and letters having genders. 1 is female, 2 is female, 3 is male, 4 is female, A is female, B is male, C is female etc. I don't know why.

I have read that some people associate number with colours.

Oh, and they also have personalities. 9 is a bit of a pain. 4 is in love with 5. 3 likes 4, but 4 doesn't like 3, but they're stuck next to each other. 3 has a thing for 4 like the Claw did for Penelope Pit Stop.

Anyone else out there?



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27 Jan 2010, 11:53 am

Sure, I always saw numbers as having faces or expressions.



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27 Jan 2010, 12:55 pm

Me, too.



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27 Jan 2010, 1:00 pm

oh my gosh. yes. to me, odd numbers are male and even numbers and female. only certain colors have personalities to me. orange, purple, blue have the most, according to the way i see them.



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27 Jan 2010, 1:37 pm

I've never really thought of numbers like that, but letters, yes. I came up with that myself when I was like 7.


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27 Jan 2010, 4:07 pm

That's an interesting synesthesia.



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27 Jan 2010, 6:54 pm

it is indeed synaesthesia. ever since i was small, i "see" numbers and letters in my head as assigned certain colors. some are obvious associations, some have no explanation.

here's my list - unchanged since childhood:

a-red
b-blue
c-yellow
d-an autumny orange
e-gunmetal blue
f-grey-green
g-brown
h-yellow
i-yellow
j-greyish lilac
k-light blue
l-yellow
m-brown
n-yellow
o-orange
p-green
q-greyish lilac
r-red
s-yellow
t-brown
u-lighter brown
v-greyish lilac
w-brown
x-greyish lilac
y-yellow
z-greyish lilac

1-yellow
2-yellow
3-brown
4-olive green
5-gunmetal blue
6-orange
7-yellow
8-red
9-orange
10 -yellow, yet, weirdly, zero by itself is greyish-lilac.



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27 Jan 2010, 8:49 pm

For me I associate gender with music notes.

starting from middle C and going up...
Middle C is male
D is male
E is female
F is male
G is female
A is male
B is female
Anything higher than that is female (high pitch, so it makes sense :D )

going down from middle C...
B is male
A is male
G is female
Anything below that is male

Car brands:
All pickup trucks are male
School Buses are female
All big rigs and dump trucks are male
Don't have the time to go thru each car brand individually :D



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27 Jan 2010, 9:08 pm

To me:

0 - White
1 - Black
2 - Dark Blue
3 - Olive
4 - Red
5 - Green
6 - Violet
7 - Orange
8 - Dark Brown

:D:D:D


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27 Jan 2010, 10:21 pm

I would love the synaesthesia that makes letters and numbers coloured. Would make spelling so much easier!!

Seeing numbers with personality, that is an unusual synaesthesia.



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27 Jan 2010, 11:09 pm

I think of numbers with colors, in two diferent formats, even. FDAVM and resistor band

0 green black
1 pink brown
2 black red
3 yellow orange
4 purple yellow
5 red green
6 grey blue
7 brown purple
8 blue grey
9 orange white

EDIT: I should add, I guess it's more associating the colors with the numbers, because I work with those two systems regularly.



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27 Jan 2010, 11:39 pm

There are personality types I associate with numbers, too. I think it has something to do with a math cartoon we were shown in elementary school. Nine is a bit formal and judgemental, six is a comfortable sort, five is a bit shifty but I like him, two is female and friendly, three is very pleasant, seven is angry, etc. I mentioned it to my daughter and she admitted that she does this, too. It's perhaps not all that uncommon among people who aren't particularly mathematically inclined.

Edit: Okay, apparently it is a form of synesthesia called Ordinal-Linguistic Personification.



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28 Jan 2010, 4:55 am

Thank goodness for that! When I wrote the post yesterday I wondered how crazy I was going to sound. Finally, I know that I am not alone.



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28 Jan 2010, 7:32 am

Seven's orange to me :D
Three's red and 5 is blue.


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28 Jan 2010, 8:17 am

This is why the savant who memorized a ton of pi was able to memorize so much.