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Toki Pona has a five-color palette: loje (red), laso (blue), jelo (yellow), pimeja (black), and walo (white). Like a painter, the speaker can combine t
by escherize 11y ago
Toki Pona has a five-color palette: loje (red), laso
(blue), jelo (yellow), pimeja (black), and walo (white).
Like a painter, the speaker can combine them to achieve
any hue on the spectrum. Loje walo for pink. Laso jelo
for green.
I wonder if there's a reason for using the pigment color combinations instead of the light combinations of color.
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- 2muchcoffeeman 11y agoBecause that is what most of us learn as children? Even now, other than white and black, I'd have to think what light combinations make what colour.
- mrob 11y agoI learned paint mixing as a child, but the only color mixing I do now is with RGB sliders. I find subtractive color much more difficult. And I know more people who make computer art than who use traditional media. I wouldn't be surprised if additive color systems have surpassed subtractive in popularity.
- david-given 11y agoOf course, one of the problems with colours is that different cultures have different colour values. The Celtic languages like Scots and Irish Gaelic distinguish between dearg, which is the red of paint or blood, and ruadh, which is the red of hair or heather. To them these are completely different colours, and a native Gaelic speaker would be really confused to find that English translates them both as the same word. Toki Pona's limited root vocabulary really just demonstrates its cultural biases.
- JshWright 11y agoOr the fact that many languages don't distinguish blue and green at all.