tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 03 21:51:33 1995
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Re: Colors? What colors?
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Colors? What colors?
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 00:51:02 -0500
In a message dated 95-11-29 16:42:22 EST, you write:
>and there's also t'chelet, which
>I like to use as an example to Hebrew-speakers about how different
>languages whack up the color-space differently: t'chelet is sky-blue,
>basically, ranging out to turquoise. No Hebrew-speaker would ever call the
>sky "kachol"; it's definitely t'chelet. But then as I write this, it
>occurs to me that maybe t'chelet was originally the name of the dye used
>for it...
>
>~mark
And, the word {t'chelet} is not new. It appears in the Torah!!!
peHruS