🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <92Nov11.054007.13743@acs.ucalgary.ca> quigley@acs.ucalgary.ca (Martyn Thomas Quigley) writes:
>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.
>
I was sent e-mail by someone who said the mnemonic is needed because
color are psychologically circular (e.g. red-violet-blue) and Roy G Biv
reminds you what the endpoints are. I occurs to me that it would be easier
just to learn one endpoint, however, than a mnemonic for the whole spectrum.
Oh well...

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University of Toronto
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