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yiqingfeng0215

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Thursday, August 7th 2003, 7:42am

what does word "Synaescope" means?

I'm doing some translation work, But I have a difficult: what "Synaescope" means?

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Thursday, August 7th 2003, 9:21am

Synaescope itself is a visualisation program available in AlsaPlayer and as a plug-in for XMMS based on the Synaesthesia program. The word has been invented so doesn't really mean anything other than the program itself, I guess the developers were alluding to 'Kaleidoscope' when naming it.

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Friday, August 8th 2003, 4:14pm

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Synaescope itself is a visualisation program available in AlsaPlayer and as a plug-in for XMMS based on the Synaesthesia program. The word has been invented so doesn't really mean anything other than the program itself, I guess the developers were alluding to 'Kaleidoscope' when naming it.

:)


Hmmm, here's what I found at dict.org:
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=synaesthesia

And I found this link:
http://www.thecure.com/robertpages/synaesthesiapiece.html

So it seems to be about "seeing sounds", which is exactly
what you describe as the function of the program :-)

Now Synaescope seems to be derived from synaesthesia
and the Greek word scopein (to look, to observe).

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Friday, August 8th 2003, 4:34pm

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Now Synaescope seems to be derived from synaesthesia
and the Greek word scopein (to look, to observe).


Which would make Synaescope mean something like
"observing the seeing of sounds"?!

I guess I'm taking this a bit too far now...;-)