Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA14576 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:55:42 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3102A6D27E@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Debate opens anew on language and its effect on cognition Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:47:15 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Filter-Info: UoS MailScan 0.1 [D 1] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
There's a tune by the avant garde British band 'The Fall' (yes,
pretentiously after Camus) called IIRC 'curious orange' or at least has that
in the lyrics....
I dunno- selfish genes, curious fruit, whatever silly ideas will people come
up with next ?
Vincent
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> From: Wade T.Smith
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 6:01 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Debate opens anew on language and its effect on
> cognition
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> On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 10:39 , Grant Callaghan wrote:
>
> > The color yellow, for instance, does not imply cowardice in Chinese as
> > it does in English. But it does have connotations of sex, just as it
> > does for us.
>
> I remember a film called 'I am curious, yellow', but I didn't see it,
> and I never did know why 'yellow'. So, why? I don't think it's a usanian
> connotation, at least it's not one I've ever encountered. In fact, I'm
> hard pressed to find _any_ color that has a direct sexual connotation,
> with the possible exception of red, as in 'red-light district'.
>
> Interestingly, there is a new musical theatre piece called 'Contact',
> which has a strongly sexual episode with a character known only as the
> 'Girl in the Yellow Dress'. I've read some reviews, but nothing I've
> read ever remarked upon any direct connotative device being utilized,
> only that the dress' color contrasts vividly with the rest of the
> characters' outfits and the stage setting itself.
>
> So, what and why yellow? Or, has it happened that yet another facet of
> sex passed me by?
>
> - Wade
>
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