tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 29 20:05:13 1995
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Re: Colors? What colors?
On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, Adam Walker wrote:
> English BTW has the maximum number of unique
> color words that have been recorded for any language -- 11! (black,
> white, red, blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, brown, pink, grey)
> The multitude of other color-words in English are dirrived from the
> names of other objects and not concidered "unique."
Using this definition, do "orange" and "pink" really qualify? They are
named after objects too: "pink" is a flower and "orange" is a
fruit.
> Qogh.
yoDtargh