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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: sci.cognitive
- Subject: Re: Silly Mnemonic Tricks
- Message-ID: <11679@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:23:18 GMT
- References: <flamer.720978731@mithril> <11379@scott.ed.ac.uk> <11441@bonzo.ed.ac.uk> <11451@hogg.ed.ac.uk>
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- In article <11451@hogg.ed.ac.uk> guy@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:
- <kate@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Kate Jeffery) writes:
- <>when the moon is a C it's crescendo and when it's a D it's diminuendo
- <>but it's the other way round. (In the Southern Hemisphere anyhow...)
- <
- <Oh God -- those "wrong way round" ones are more trouble than they're worth.
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- True -- unless you have a submnemonic to help you remember whether the
- chief mnemonic is "wrong".
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- < The way I heard it was:
- <
- < When the moon is Coming it is really departing
- < When the moon is Departing it is really coming
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- The Bulgarian moon mnemonic on the other hand is a "straight" one:
- when the moon is like a "C", it _slabee_ `becomes slender, loses weight',
- and when it is like a "D", it _debelee_ `becomes fat, gains weight'.
- (Some familiarity with the Cyrillic alphabet is needed for the first part.)
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- --
- `Haud yer wheesht! Come oot o the man an gie him peace.' (The Glasgow Gospel)
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)
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