words for architectural things
Dec. 16th, 2014 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wispfoxIt just occurred to me that the trouble I have remembering/recognizing words relating to architecture could be that I have nothing to associate them to in my head. If I have no visual memory, there's nothing for them to attach to, and using descriptions loses a lot of information.
I wonder if that's actually what's going on, or if it's yet another manifestation of my trouble remembering words for very specific objects (yes, including proper nouns), especially if there is no obvious link to what little Latin I still remember. It's easier to remember words I've seen rather than only heard, though.
Or, I suppose, trouble remembering words at all - given how often I end up flailing and saying 'thingy!' or 'that... thing!'. :) Sometimes it's amazing that I can actually communicate anything!
(I'm much better at remembering where things are in relation to other things, at least small scale. This is probably why we have a front (sitting/living) room, a dining room, and a back (sitting/living) room, at least according to me)
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galaneia referring to a part of a building using a term with which I was unfamiliar. This is a common problem on my part, and she and metahacker seem to know and use a lot of terminology to describe buildings and parts of buildings.
I wonder if that's actually what's going on, or if it's yet another manifestation of my trouble remembering words for very specific objects (yes, including proper nouns), especially if there is no obvious link to what little Latin I still remember. It's easier to remember words I've seen rather than only heard, though.
Or, I suppose, trouble remembering words at all - given how often I end up flailing and saying 'thingy!' or 'that... thing!'. :) Sometimes it's amazing that I can actually communicate anything!
(I'm much better at remembering where things are in relation to other things, at least small scale. This is probably why we have a front (sitting/living) room, a dining room, and a back (sitting/living) room, at least according to me)
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galaneia referring to a part of a building using a term with which I was unfamiliar. This is a common problem on my part, and she and metahacker seem to know and use a lot of terminology to describe buildings and parts of buildings.
