When I first came in, there’s a bot that says “Tutorial”, I tap the link but it didn’t work. I thought it will automatically guide me or show me how to use all the icons creating a message. I’ve been playing with each of them, there’s one icon that says “Block quote”, I’m not sure what it means nor what it do in creating a message. Does anyone knows about it? I’m not sure either while I’m typing it will be automatically be saved because I don’t see any "save"icon here or maybe I’m just blind.
Second question is, I keep reading and looking about the Dominic method. I just can’t figure it out why the numbers 0-5 translate into each letter of the Alphabet while the number 6-9 there’s a designated letters of each digits. How did the number 7,8,9 become G,H,N, what happen to the other Alphabet?
For a beginner I know it is better to know the basic method that helps to understand better how it works, but along the way to be practical and to go along with modernization are there any method that can be use to modernize the process? Instead doing the story it can be just direct to the point of what our aim to achieve. I’m just wondering how the pro memorizer can memorize quickly with all the story with each location and say it quickly what we want to memorize.
Just my thoughts that confuse me, I mean no harm to the pro or creator of the method. Thank you kindly. It will be appreciated if my question will be answered.
… and put the quote in the place where the word “Blockquote” is.
On the right side of your screen you can see what it looks like after you press the reply button.
The point of all is to allow you to react to a quote of other forum members.
I’m not sure either while I’m typing it will automatically be saved because I don’t see any "save"icon here or maybe I’m just blind.
It is possible that the page refreshes and as a consequence you may lose what you have written. That is why it is useful to write first in a text document and then copy paste everything back into the reply field of this forum.
The spelling and grammar check of the text document program allows you to pretend that your English is really good .
Second question is, I keep reading and looking at the Dominic method. I just can’t figure out why the numbers 0-5 translate into each letter of the Alphabet while the number 6-9 there’s a designated letter of each digit.
Most people know that for example c is the 3rd letter of the alphabet without any effort. This ability stops after 5 or so letters for most people so this ability is only used for the first 5 letters of the alphabet.
I think that intuitive shape based associations make much more sense, but that’s just my opinion.
The draft of whatever you’re writing gets saved in your account as long as you’re connected to the Internet. You can find all your drafts here: https://forum.artofmemory.com/my/activity/drafts
(The /my/ part of that URL will redirect to your own user account.)
The main purpose of the Dominic System is to make it easy to find initials that match the letter pairs.
7 is G because G is the 7th letter of the alphabet.
8 is H because H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.
The only three that fall outside of that pattern are:
0 — O: There isn’t a zeroth letter, so O is based on the similar shape.
6 — S: I suspect that it’s easier to find initials using S than F (the 6th letter of the alphabet)
9 — N: this might be easier than I (i) when dealing with initial letters.
It’s okay to change the number-letter assignments if you want. Here’s an example of how I modified letter-sound assignments from another system called the Ben System: A 2-Digit Consonant-Vowel Number System (CV System)
As long as you can remember the associations, I think it’s fine to modify them.
Second question is, I keep reading and looking about the Dominic method. I just can’t figure it out why the numbers 0-5 translate into each letter of the Alphabet while the number 6-9 there’s a designated letters of each digits. How did the number 7,8,9 become G,H,N, what happen to the other Alphabet?
You are asking about the Dominic system specifically and Josh answered that specifically, but also consider looking at the Major system.
The idea behind these systems are to turn number digits (that for many people aren’t very memorable) into words, so that they can be turned to images that can be made more memorable.
Since there are only 10 number digits in decimal and since there are many more letters in the alphabet than that (and since some letters are used a lot less in words than others, e.g. X) there needs to be some way to assign numbers to letters (and the reverse).
Another approach worth considering would be a shaper system: in these the shape of the digit is used to make an image.
The different systems have slightly different intents and tradeoffs.
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