{"id":523,"date":"2009-05-28T16:19:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T21:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2009-05-28T16:19:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T21:19:29","slug":"eat-your-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Eat Your Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/45832000\/gif\/_45832547_booba_kiki226x170.gif\" alt=\"shapes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which shape above is the bouba?<\/p>\n<p>BBC News has a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8070210.stm\">medium-length article<\/a> (with videos!) about some science showing that we all have the ability for some kind of synesthesia.<\/p>\n<p>Some words just SEEM to represent a rounded shape rather than an angular one. Others just seem to represent a sour taste more than a sweet one.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\">UPDATE:<\/font> I didn&#8217;t think of this before, but this reminds me of Roy Blount Jr. and his book Alphabet Juice (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=95954883\">read an excerpt and hear an interview here<\/a>). In the book, he says that most (or many) words aren&#8217;t randomly attached to meanings, but that they somehow fit what they represent and couldn&#8217;t be something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which shape above is the bouba? BBC News has a medium-length article (with videos!) about some science showing that we all have the ability for some kind of synesthesia. Some words just SEEM to represent a rounded shape rather than an angular one. Others just seem to represent a sour taste more than a sweet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-such"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}