tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 29 20:05:13 1995

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Re: Colors? What colors?




On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, Adam Walker wrote:

> 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."

Using this definition, do "orange" and "pink" really qualify?  They are 
named after objects too:  "pink" is a flower and "orange" is a 
fruit.

> Qogh.

yoDtargh



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