tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 02 15:16:43 2008
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purple
- From: naHQun <[email protected]>
- Subject: purple
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:14:43 -0500
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"The fact that neither SuD nor Doq includes what is called "violet" or
"purple" in Federation Standard may be related to Klingon
physiology--that is, exactly how the Klingon eye processes different
wavelengths of light." KGT pp82-83
Seems pretty simple, Klingons can't see purple, therefore they don't
have a word for "purple".
But WHY can't they see purple?
I can think of two reasons.
1) It is simply outside of thier visual range-like humans and
ultra-violet. We simple can't see it, but we know that it's there
because we have instruments to detect it for us.
2) ALL Klingons are color-blind to purple.
If it's option 1, then only a small group of Klingons who spend time
dealing with shades outside of the Klingon spectrum would have a way
to refer to puprple. (How often do we use "ultra-violet" in everyday
speech?)
If it's option 2, then in place of purple, a Klingon would see a
different shade, something like when a colorblind human looks at a
shade that they can't see.
In which case, is anyone on the list colorblind to purple-or know
enough about colorblindness in general to "guess" what shade purple
would come out as. If a Klingon percieves purple as green-then the
Klingon would say that the object is "SuD". Which would then make all
purple object SuD, no?
Of course, not having a Klingon around to place purple objects in
front of makes all of this speculation.
~naHQun
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