tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 17 14:51:02 1994
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Re: color: SuD
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- Subject: Re: color: SuD
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 22:45:35 -0800
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Greetings,
I had hoped to work on TKD until I could make my first posting in
tlhIngan Hol, but couldn't resist commenting on this. A am an
anthropologist, specializin g in Alaskan Eskimo languages and cultures.
Colors, and the words or terms for describing them, are part of the
language, and don't necessarilty correlate with the ability to *perceive*
color. For examp;le, most *human* languages have either three, four, or
five "Basic Color TErms" into which the entire spectrum can be divided.
This *does not* mean that people do not *percieve* f9iner distinctions,
nor does it mean they cannot *describe* them in their languages (e.g.,
in English, "you know, the color of a newly opened birch tree leaf."
Apologies for they typos. --roy--
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