tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 29 20:00:15 1995
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Re: Colors? What colors?
- From: [email protected] (Jan & Lorie Slater)
- Subject: Re: Colors? What colors?
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 23:01:47 -0500
>The fact that Klingons have no special words for some of the
>colors that English does says nothing about their visual abilities.
>Many human languages have a color system which is VERY similar to the
>tlhingan system. All known languages have at least 2 color words --
>something like black and white or dark and light. If a language has
>3 color words the third one is always red. The fourth is green or
>blue and the fifth is the other one. Other languages may add even
>more distinctions. English BTW has the maximum number of unique
>color words that have been recorded for any language -- 11! (black,
>white, red, blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, brown, pink, grey)
>The multitude of other color-words in English are dirrived from the
>names of other objects and not concidered "unique."
>
One other oddity, is the apparent lack of support for the decimal point.
Jan