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Colour perception is indeed fascinating. My son is autistic, and his attachment of labels to colours is idiosyncratic - e.g. one of his favourite things is an A
by tragomaskhalos 9y ago
Colour perception is indeed fascinating. My son is autistic, and his attachment of labels to colours is idiosyncratic - e.g. one of his favourite things is an Angry Birds pig plush, which he insists is "yellow". This makes complete sense to me once we mentally translate to a different classification scheme - I believe he is seeing the (classical) Greek "khloros", the vibrant colour of growing vegetation, for which we don't have a precise word in English.
- solipsism 9y agoWhat? That kind of green is clearly a yellowish green, like the Greek nymph. But what does that have to do with "different clarification schemes"? You seem to be implying that your son's scheme is aligned with that of the ancient Greeks, but I'm not seeing it. Could you elaborate?