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Article #234Re: Silly Mnemonic Tricks
From: Martyn Thomas Quigley
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:40
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:40
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christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes: >> >>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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!decwrl!access.usask.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!quigley From: quigley@acs.ucalgary.ca (Martyn Thomas Quigley) Newsgroups: sci.cognitive Subject: Re: Silly Mnemonic Tricks Message-ID: <92Nov11.054007.13743@acs.ucalgary.ca> Date: 11 Nov 92 05:40:07 GMT Article-I.D.: acs.92Nov11.054007.13743 References: <flamer.720978731@mithril> <11379@scott.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov9.143429.7702@psych.toronto.edu> Sender: news@acs.ucalgary.ca (USENET News System) Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca