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Full-Color Alphabet...
Finally we have learned the word--synesthesia--that describes what our adult daughter has been telling us for years: in her mind she sees numbers and letters of the alphabet in various colors [SCIENCE, May 21]. A is green, B is red, lowercase b is pink, 2 is yellow, 3 is green, 9 is orange and yellow. Months of the year also have their individual colors, which she notes each time she turns over a new calendar page. Your article was interesting and intriguing to me as I saw it--in simple black and white. BEVERLY GROSS Plover...
...unlike reporters, many people need more than words to express themselves: architects, engineers, graphic designers, artists. Sure, you can "draw" on graphics tablets, but these are no real substitute for pen and paper. Then there's the two-thirds of the world that doesn't use the Roman alphabet. You can get keyboards in Chinese and Hindi, but speed is a problem if you have to hit several keys to make a single character. Writing is intuitive, natural. But is it the wave of the future...
...permutations of the senses. While synesthetic responses are usually as unique as fingerprints, the condition runs in families. Nabokov, for example, for whom the letter b evoked the color burnt sienna, and t, pistachio green, often argued with his equally synesthetic mother about the true colors of the alphabet...
...FAIR] LeapFrog's Fun & Learn Phonics Bus helps toddlers learn the alphabet, but teachers say that's what school is for. Best way to prepare kids for preschool: teach them how to share and follow directions...