Any specifics on how you managed to make this happen?
I asked myself: what color is that person? and sort of let all rationality fade away. If I completely didn't know, then I kept thinking about everything I knew about them; and if I didn't know about that, then I'd make more observations. I asked myself "What do I think a lavender voice sounds like?" and very carefully monitored my internal world. If I had a feeling I couldn't attach to something like raw emotion, or a feeling that reminded me of a different time and place, I nurtured that connection. In the end, I had the feeling that I was walking free of time. I'd walk through one place or another, and think very carefully about how I felt, and about other memories that felt the same--so that sometimes I'd lose track of the year or even the season, walking through a cloud of associations. I'd be twenty and clearly remember similar situations from eleven years ago, or more. It drove people around me nuts, because sometimes I'd feel the same sadness I felt in elementary school as a college student, just because of the way the wind blew.
I just thought about it, I guess. I know one guy who reminds me of hazelnuts and another one who makes me think of autumn evenings, walking past cold gritty stone walls. Magnolias will always make me think of friendship, and Baby's Breath of disappointment.
It's just the same as any other association, just looser and more relaxed. If someone reminds you of an angel, then it's almost the same thing. They have angelic qualities. Well, my friends have tree-qualities, nut-qualities, or autumnal-qualities.
One of my favorite experiments is thinking of people as pieces of music. Not pre-existing ones. Sometimes, when I do that, it helps me figure out something that's bothering the person in question, because their music seems imbalanced or disorderly.
*shrug*
It's kind of weird, I guess.
As far as Esperanto, Interlingua, and Afrikaans, I'm afraid I don't know enough about any of those to say anything--but from what I know of Esperanto, it has a lot of the same qualities as Mexican Spanish, but seems kind of metallic in nature. It's not multi-dimensional.
Conlangs have always seemed a bit flat.
Too bad it only works in english. I could have used that one.
Bah, and suddenly I want to look up math jokes in other languages. Thanks for the idea!
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