tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 04 13:25:49 1997
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Re: UNO & colors
- From: "Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: UNO & colors
- Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 16:34:10 -0500
- Organization: http://www.kli.org
Jim LeMaster ([email protected]) wrote:
I don't quite know where it started, but I've got the impression that
that Klingon eyes are not well suited to "Earth normal" RGB colors and
tended to be better for night vision, going further into the infra-red
and ultra-violet as a result of their evolutionary ancestry
(predator-based).
Simply because a culture doesn't have separate names for what you might
label as two distinct colors should not suggest that they cannot
perceive the difference between them. Do you distinguish between the
color of the sun half an hour before sun-down and the color of a ripe
pumpkin? Probably not. For our purposes orange is orange. Having
different color maps is nothing new when it comes to languages, so I
would take a step back before inferring either perceptual or
physiological ramifications
There was an excellent article on this subject in a back issue of HolQeD
by the way...
Lawrence
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