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

With the 10,000 places article, I gave fill patterns to some of the colours of the Colours article because I find it hard to visualise some colours without doubts that the colour is too similar to another colour from the colour palette. I think that fill patterns would work within coloured actions as well. But maybe different patterns to what the 100 patterns approach uses. E.g. A rope held by someone would be hard to imagine with an intricate pattern all along it but a simpler stroke fill could help to distinguish one brown shade from another.

Here is the colour chart with a small number of changes to help to express a colour despite an object like a rope having a narrow fill area. I used some of the fills ideas from the Colours article:

But another approach is to only use the colours of the most common letters: A E I O U L N R S T C; and then one left over colour fill to mean "none of those options". The a light grey can mean L and a dark grey can mean T' and no pattern fill would be wanted anymore. The "none of those options" colour could be red; and the colour light pink could mean that the action really is two letters rather than three.

Adding the letter L

It is a shame that the letter L is not represented within digits 0 to 9 of the Male 1000 Spelling Prompt system.

I could add in more images so that combinations such as LAT or ALT or LTA could be represented.

My aim is to make visual characters based on Shakespeare play characters. I will write a new article when that is ready.