@currlyn if you enjoy russian, colours, and the scientific method
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Remember hearing that in 1700s someone decided that they'd read Homer's Odyssey counting references to colours. Was amazed that blue didn't exist. The sky was light or dark but never referred to as a specific colour. Someone then followed chronology. Egypt invented blue.
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i was just thinking about “light red” being called pink in English, but “light blue” is just light blue.
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Is English your native language?
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Grass in Welsh is “glaswellt”, blue grass.
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In most? In the world there are about 7000 languages.
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Great thread. This is straying into Sapir-Whorf hypothesis territory, I reckon.
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In Russian, there is a single word 'sobytie' for the event and for the co-being: 'so~bytie'. This week's paper analyzes this wonderful linguistic difference affects the psychology of human perception of the world in different countries.
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Colour naming differs greatly between languages and cultures; check out horse colours.
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