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| ManicGenius Senior Member United States Joined 5483 days ago 288 posts - 420 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, French, Japanese | Message 9 of 17 03 June 2010 at 7:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Also I doubt males percieve purple as a red variant. Looks bluish to me.
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6441 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 10 of 17 03 June 2010 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
Tetrachromacy is quite rare, and almost certainly not what she's talking about. It's a fun topic, but let's not put words in each other's mouths. Red, pink, and purple are quite distinguishable even for red-green colorblind people, and certainly do not require tetrachromacy to distinguish. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6911 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 17 03 June 2010 at 8:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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See also this thread:
Languages, words for colours blue and green 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6261 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 12 of 17 03 June 2010 at 9:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thank you jeff_lindqvist for the link, I don't know how I missed it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6261 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 13 of 17 03 June 2010 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
Which Chartreuse do you mean? and what about School bus yellow, Jazzberry jam, or Still de grain? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ManicGenius Senior Member United States Joined 5483 days ago 288 posts - 420 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, French, Japanese | Message 14 of 17 03 June 2010 at 10:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
I just don't like annoying names for colors. Mauve, okre and other similar things. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6951 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 15 of 17 04 June 2010 at 2:11am | IP Logged | |||||
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In a university anthropology class, we studied the spectrums encompassed in color names in different cultures. I did my report on Vietnamese, and found not only that green/blue are considered shades of the same color, but that a wide range of colors from yellow to orange to pink can all be called 'cam'.
I remember reading a fascinating study in that class. It seems that there is a kind of cross-cultural 'hierarchy of color names' if you will. For example, a few cultures only specify two colors - 'light' and 'dark'. Everything in these cultures is considered a shade of black or white. If a culture distinguishes a third color after that, it will almost definitely be red. If they distinguish a fourth color, it will be green. So we read about a culture in which every color is described as a shade of black, white, red, or green. I forget the order after that, but the distinction between blue and green was a very high-level distinction which many cultures do not make. This quite old study also, attempted to make a correlation between how many color distinctions a culture makes and how 'primitive' or 'indistrialized' the society is. Needless to say, his conclusions here have been widely criticized, not least because the author's native English (which he listed along with other Western European languages as one of the most industrialized) did not make the blue-green and other distinctions before borrowing color words from French. EDIT: I tried to find the study online, and it may have been this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms:_Their_Univer sality_and_Evolution Edited by Lucky Charms on 04 June 2010 at 2:21am 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Raincrowlee Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 6704 days ago 621 posts - 808 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Indonesian, Japanese | Message 16 of 17 04 June 2010 at 5:31am | IP Logged | |||||
No, there seems to be some perceptual problems. My father has a difficult time distinguishing between shades of colors, sometimes shades that are quite dissimilar. He's not colorblind, just color insensitive. Though I don't think his case is quite as extreme as what Solfrid mentioned. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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