This article adds a bit more complexity to ideas already introduced. It makes the actions article lesson a bit more complex. It also shows a way to use the Male 1000 system as a three letter spelling prompt system.

Note: Before reading on, remember how there is an AA-ZZ system of cartoon heroes, an action system of 1000 actions where some of the actions can represent letter pairs; and remember that there are humanoid animal cartoon images that can additionally represent letter pairs. And remember that there are 1000 male cartoon people who were introduced as a way to represent dictionary meanings as if they are cartoon people..

With foreign vocabulary memorisation, there is the idea that one of the 1000 men or 1000 women can be imagined doing an action to an obect (recipient). The action is a spelling clue and the recipient is a spelling clue too: a prompt for spelling the word in the foreign language.

It makes sense to me that the colour used in an action can be a clue about how the action is intended to be interpreted.

The Actions article states a way in which some of the 1000 actions can represent letter pairs; but if the colour of the action matters then it can add a third letter to the interpretation of the letter pair.

If you know that a 3 digit action matches a 2 letter spelling such as "ZU" then you could imagine the action having its own colour. The colour from the colours article that means "C" is a particular blue colour. So if the action involves a football and the football is that blue colour then the "ZU" could be interpreted to spelling prompt "ZUC".

And if the action is intended to mean just 2 letters then use the colour of 'Q' from the Colours article. (I chose Q because not many English words use 'Q'.)

There is an argument that it is good to keep a vocabulary prompt small so that your rote memory is engaged to try to remember a word more naturally.

However, it is interesting the extra steps you could take to memorise several letters of a foreign word or jargon. Imagining one of the animal people in the scene can prompt you a little more of the spelling of a word.

The Male 1000 System and Spelling Prompts

There is also a technique where the Male 1000 person's ordinal number can be used as a kind of spelling prompt:

Use the digit : number approach of: 0 = O, 1 = I, 2 = A, 3 = E, 4 = U, 5 = N, 6 = S, 7 = C [in English], 8 = T, 9 = R.

Then a person such as Male person 345 can be thought of as the spelling of 3,4 and 5: EUN.

So you may have an imaginary scene where a person (who represents a dictionary word) performs an action (representing the first letters of the foreign spelling of that dictionary word) on a person such as an AA-ZZ system person. In that way, you have the first two or three letters of the foreign word and then another two letters of the foreign word. You can store another couple of letters by using the Animal system or by using the Male 1000 system (as just described).

The 'Colours 0 to 9' article has a choice of letters which can mean a digit. Eg. 1 = the letter "I" usually (in this current article) but now consider L or CH or J because the 'Colours 0 to 9' article associates L / CH / J with the digit 1 as well as "I". Maybe the third digit of the three digit number would be open to wider interpretation such as L / CH / J if it is a 1. I will explore that idea, below.

If a Male 1000 system person means spelling prompt "EUN" [345] then, unless the word prompt is a foreign word, English would not typically have words beginning "EUN...". So I have alternative ideas about how to represent 000 to 999 as spelling prompts. But maybe I am overthinking here and should just keep it simple. But here are some ideas about interpreting the first two digits as common spelling combinations:

If the third digit is a 0 then the 'Person 0 to 9' article suggests that the digit 5 represents W / N / P. So, if the prefix is "PRE-", you would assume that the next letter is either W or N or P. E.g. Prepare, Prenuptial. For the TT to happen and then the digit 5, the three digit number would need to be 885.

I could guide the interpretation of a cartoon person. For instance, if the cartoon character faces to my left then I can assume that the intended meaning is the dictionary word that is mapped to the person; but if the cartoon person faces to my right then I can deduce that there is a different type of interpretation to make.

If digit one [the leftmost of the three digits] could be swapped [e.g. N swpaped with W or with P] then I would consider:

Whether the person stares straight ahead, up at the sky or down at the floor could mean something too: the Colours 0 to 9 article has, for digits 0 to 9, a letter in the range O, I, A, E, U, N, S, C, T, R. If the person stares at the sky then use, for the relevant first digit of a three digit number, the alternative letter that is lowest in the alphabet; and, if the person stares at the sky then use the alternative letter that is highest in the alphabet. E.g. 0 uses O but has B and Q spare. Looking at the floor would mean the B, looking straight ahead would be the O and staring up at the sky would be the Q.

Another idea: Could UO.. / UI.. / UA... / UE.. / UU... / EUN have a use as aliases for something else?

Some colours are hard to distinguish

In the article about Colours, I explain how some colours can sometimes benefit from a pattern fill in order to make two similar colours stand out from each other.

I would be happy to imagine an action image have a diagonal line fill sometimes if it helps me to know which letter the colour of the action is meant to represent.

I am OK with using just using the subset of colours from the Colours article so that the main 12 letters that occur in words have their own colour; and an extra colour means 'a letter outside that range of letters'; the blue of the letter Q just means that the action represents two letters rather than bolting on a third one.

Adding the letter 'L'

A person does an action to an obkect; that object can be another person. The person doing the action always means a particular vocabulary word; and the action and recipient of the action are spelling prompts about how to write that vocabulary word in a foreign language.

If the recipient of the action is a woman from the Woman 1000 system then her bumber value between 000 and 999 could be used to imply 10 letters and 10 letters and 10 letters to give a 3 letter sequence:

In this table, the first letter of the three letter sequence is never the same as the choices of first letter of the Male 1000 system that we looked at earlier:

Woman 1000 people use their 3 digits to mean 3 letter spelling prompts:

The 'L1', 'L2' and'L3' are where the letter 'L' can occur in the three letter sequence. E.g. If the sequence is 'L1' 'E' 'N' then think of the sequence as 'LEN';

If the sequence is 'L2' 'E' 'N' then think of the sequence as 'ELN';

If the sequence is 'L3' 'E' 'N' then think of the sequence as 'ENL'.

A weak example is a vocabulary person from the Male 1000 system. Item 170 is a vocabulary person representing 'Depend'. The Polish word for 'depend' is zależeć; so I want the action to mean ZAL and I want the recipient of the action to mean EZE; but the table of options, above, does not offer EZE; therefore, I would just use a hero from the 900 heroes system: one who represents EZ. So the action plus recipient represent ZALEZ.... (quite a good prompt)

Actually, Polish does not use the most popular ENglish vowels and consonants much without adding in a 'Z' or something to make this approach not much use; I could use an action as a 2 letter prompt by using the'Q' colour fill on that action [which means 'treat this as just 2 letters'] and then the recipient of the action can be a hero who represents 2 letters; but a romance language should have nore luck in using a three-letter-meaning person. 'Montar' means 'to ride' in Spanish. An MO action colour filled with colour 'N' can represent the MON; and the Male 1000 three letter sequence approach allows 'TAR' to be represented. So there is no need yet to use the Male 1000 approach to representing 3 letters.

'Fever' in Italian is'febbre' where I want FEB to be in the action [FE colour filled with the wildcard colour or with the 'B' colour] and the remaining 'BRE' can be represented by using the Female 1000 spelling approach: BRE is Female 093. So the 093 man should be the person receiving action FE.

Actually, person 275 of the Male 1000 system means 'Fever'; so that will be the person doing the action. If neither the Woman 1000 system nor the Male 1000 system has a person to mean a word then maybe the Picture Dictionary 1000 system will; in that case, the doer of the action might mean 3 letters if he/she is from the Male 1000 or Female 1000 system; and the action canmean three letters as well; and the recipient must be the visual picture dictionary item.

If a foreign word has no image from any of those 3 systems then you cantry to make one up or concede that you just have to learn the word in a rote old-fashioned way. Eventually, the word needs to be known rote anyway in order for you to use the foreign language at normal speed. I think that there are two main benefits to using a mnemonic story though:

1. By revisiting the mnemonic scene, you revisit the foreign word - and that is a revision session.

2. In a situation where you are the speaker and so the conversation waits for you to say something, there is time to visit a mnemonic story and find a foreign word prompt.