This is a classic sitcom bit where the husband and the wife end up in a screaming match over it "This isn't blue, it's NAVY" "Navy is a KIND OF BLUE, Martha, it's called NAVY BLUE"
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Indeed, there's strong evidence that knowing the names for different colors literally helps us distinguish between them. Russians, for example, tend to be better at distinguishing blues because Russian views different shades of blue as different canon colors.
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I love that there's a clear pattern in how we develop color definition, starting with light and dark, then adding red, then green or yellow, then yellow or green, then blue. To this day, many languages lack a blue-green distinction.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language …
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I never tire of the fact that Isaac Newton added indigo to the rainbow because he wanted it to have seven colors instead of six.
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