Gary Numen the new romantic artist.
Why?
G = 7th Letter of Alphabet
N = Stands for “nothing”, a UK standard word for zero.
My PAOS system of 00 to 99 uses
A is 1
B is 2
C is 3
D is 4
E is 5
F is 6
G is 7
H is 8
I is 9
N is nothing (zero).
Gary Numen did a song called Are Friends Electric (huge hit in the UK) and I associated that with a phrase from (I think) Isaac Asimov (who isn’t my 91 that’s Ian Anderson the leader of rock group Jethro Tull) "Do androids dream of electric sheep?’
Character: Gary Numen
Action: Herding Sheep (shepharding with a crook) (sheep like footstools not real sheep along Argyll Street in Glasgow)
Object: Electric Sheep (which look like the Sheepskin footstools that are popular here in UK)
Symbol: F#6 note on musical stave.
Very important for me is that 70 and Gary Numen is in a couple of specific places: My PAOS system is in the streets of my home city and any piano.
70 represents the musical tone F#6 (F sharp in the 6th octave). Counting from the left hand side this piano key is also the 70th of the 88 piano keys on a standard piano key. It isn’t playable on a guitar being two frets above even a 24 fret guitar.
70 / 070 (Major system) = goose / saxophone
Because they are both objects that make unique sounds.
@coda likes it, I like it. @Bigdonnyv, I would say that ice skates should be converted to 007. Maybe you could be a better Canadian by using ski slope? But I think that a sax is a better visual.
The person who knows 2 or more languages words, have surely varieties of choices to pick in 3 digit system.
And the person who only know 1 language let’s say only English. (he have less choices ?)
For example my native language is hindi and I am learning English (why ?, Because it’s an international language and I need to learn, until now I learned lots of English words.)
so basically I have double choices when I choose a 3 digit number word.
But if we are talking about English user, he knows only English that’s okay but he will never learn hindi (why ?, Because he don’t need it.)
and only few English people comes to india about learning it’s cultures and other things. (So basically he lost a vast collection of words.)
Okay if he knew other languages like french, spanish, italian or any other language. maybe I think that will give him a little plus point.
But let’s talk about only your collection of words which is totally in English language , so do you think other language point is advantage or not ?
Yes, of course it’s an advantage to have more words to choose from. I use words from several languages, e.g. 129 is “tep” so I use Teppich (German word for “carpet”). This means you have fewer cases where the word is a bit of a stretch, or doesn’t follow the rules. However, I also have a lot of these “exception” cases (where the word doesn’t follow the rule) and as long as you learn them well, I don’t think it matters too much in the end.
Since mnemonics is a visual language, the more visual images you have readily available in your mind, the better “vocabulary” you will have to express yourself. That’s why so many people use TV and film. It expands their visual experiences.
Words are an intermediary to those visual images that are used for conversion purposes. They give us a better tool for creating systems that expand the number of images we can use. English has about 170,000 commonly used words. Hindi has around the same number. Adding those together you have a wellspring of 300,000 words or more to choose from. Of course, there are those borrowed words in each language like train but I’m not discussing language here.
My opinion: big advantage. @katiek is a translator I think and has a big advantage also. That could be one factor in why she is a world class memory athlete.
70
P = Albert Einstein*
A = Writing on a chalkboard
O = (KS) KiSs (which means pee in Swedish which is arguably way more memorable than a kiss)
070 (SKS) = SKiSs (Sketch)
*Short explanation of my 00-99 PAO: = 10-29 People I know = 30-49 Musicians = 50-69 Movie characters = 70-89 Extraordinary people
10, 30, 50, 70 = Definitions (favorite person and musician, most famous character and extraordinary person)
X = 1, 3, 5, 7
Y = 2, 4, 6, 8
X1 = Ace
X2 = 2 and so on
Y3 = King
Y4 - Y9 = Other people in the same category but slightly different (ex. 10-23 = family, 24-29 = friends)
I’d say it’s an advantage if you use it right since it could probably lead to some confusion if used wrong.
I find it somewhat helpful not to have too many alternatives to choose from. It might have something to do with me being an extremely indesisive person or that I’m still inexperienced when it comes to memory techniques.
Either way I’ve tried to stick to my first language when creating systems, peg-lists and memory palaces. It just makes more sense to me, at the moment. When/if I run out of options or when I feel comfortable enough with these techniques then I’ll probably add some of the other languages.
I use Sax(ophone) for my 070. How does ‘ice skates’ fit into the phonetics of that? I don’t have ice skates on their own, but use 874 as ‘Figure’ (figure skater).
= 10-29 People I know
= 30-49 Musicians
= 50-69 Movie characters
= 70-89 Extraordinary people