tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 18 11:19:57 1994
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Re: color: SuD
- From: [email protected] (Thibaud Salle)
- Subject: Re: color: SuD
- Date: 18 Aug 1994 16:10:45 GMT
- Organization: Exo-Info, Sainte-Julie
2. Klingons are unable to discern the upper-end of the "visual" spectrum
(unable to perceive the band of shorter wave-length light in the
spectrum humans perceive. Note: there is also no word for violet or purple
listed, which may support this theory);
- a ST book supports that theory... can't recall the title now
or
3. Klingons can see these colors perfectly well but the distiction is
simply unimportant.
Color perception IS linguistically determined. F.I., in Brittany, France,
people use one word for Blue and Green, and native Breton speakers had
trouble using properly the French words Bleu et Vert.
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Thibaud Salle' [email protected] [email protected]