tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 03 21:56:58 1995
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Re: Colors? What colors?
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Colors? What colors?
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 00:56:21 -0500
In a message dated 95-11-29 16:42:22 EST, you write:
>Interesting. I'd long known of the "hierarchy" of colors (incidentally,
>Nick Nicholas believes that Okrand was playing a joke on linguists when he
>picked his color-words, since I believe they conflate colors which no
>language with as many color-words as Klingon would. But that's a story for
>him to tell). But I'm surprised to learn that English has the current
>known maximum, and that there are only eleven.
Chinese Mandarin, until recent times, had very few words for colors: ching =
black, blue, green; hwang = brown, yellow; bai = white; hung = red. lyu =
green, eg. was added later.
In recent times Chinese has added attributive words to distinguish colors:
shen = dark, deep; ching = light.
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