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Re: Silly Mnemonic Tricks

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From: Martyn Thomas Quigley
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:40
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christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
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>>Or "Richard of York gained battles in vain".
>>
>You know, it always amazed me that people needed a mnemonic for the order
>of colors in the spectrum.  Their order always seemed pretty intuitive
>to me (e.g., what comes between red and yellow? orange of course. Would
>anyone think blue?). I must be misunderstanding the context in which
>mnemonics are traditionally used. Could someone enlighten me?

Presumably when that-which-is-to-be-learned means absolutely nothing
at all to who-is-learning-it.  But maybe I'm missing something too.

Mart
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