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How much you like the letters in your name is used as an indirect method for measuring self esteem. If I really don't like the letters e,o,a,s,r, and d... then

• scotty79 9y ago
  How can you like or dislike a letter?
  • mcphage 9y ago
    Same way you like or dislike anything else.
  • mc32 9y ago
    While I don't have a dislike for any letter, I do dislike a couple of decimal numbers, one of which is a birthday number. I prefer odds over evens.
    • saghm 9y ago
      I've also found I prefer odds over evens; I'm not entirely sure why, but at least in terms of when there are an odd number of objects or visual markers in a row, I find it inherently satisfying that one of them is exactly halfway between the endpoints, and it slightly bothers me that with even numbers there isn't one.
    • Jedd 9y ago
      > I prefer odds over evens. A few years ago someone told me that for anything other than within a especially formal garden design, most people prefer the visual of odd numbers of similar plants grouped together - from small bulbs planted at the scale of several centimetres, up to large trees planted at ten metres or more apart. Of course, how you identify what most people 'prefer' is challenging - it may be more a reflection of what looks natural or random. But, like how red cars are often spotted in groups of three, once I started noticing numbers of like plants clumped together, at various scales, it does seem to hold true. Your preference may be more deep-seated than at a purely integer level. :)
      • FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
        >A few years ago someone told me that for anything other than within a especially formal garden design, most people prefer the visual of odd numbers of similar plants grouped together - Perhaps people seeing groups of items with a single middle element? When composing mock api data, I do notice I tend to avoid arrays with an even number of elements
      • mc32 9y ago
        On the other hand the negative spaces are even.
        • Jedd 9y ago
          Do you mean between every pairing of items? Apparently this 'odd numbers look better' stands regardless of proximity between each item. Keep an eye out for occurrences - it's a pretty subjective interpretation, I'm sure.
  • coldtea 9y ago
    Yo wold be srprised...
  • II2II 9y ago
    I was wondering that as well, then I realized that I am mildly more interested in the letter 'Q' than other letters. And yes, there is a 'Q' in my name.
  • thaumasiotes 9y ago
    Some letters are hard to write. That seems like a good reason to dislike them. Some letters look better than others. The Japanese word ryuu ("dragon", for Japanese values of dragons) is written 竜. The alternate form 龍 is Chinese and not Japanese, but is specifically allowed in Japanese names, and is very popular there because it looks cooler. Some letters are useless. The English letter C can be etymologically informative, but it has negative value in terms of indicating the pronunciation of a word, and the English alphabet already provides letters which unambiguously indicate the sounds that C commonly makes. Some letters are obviously awkward. The English letter CH, unlike C, doesn't really have substitutes. But it's not a huge aesthetic success, and people get confused over whether to think of it as one thing or two things.