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Anyone who has studied a non-European language will be familiar with this concept. Color names is strongly linked to culture. I'm Cambodian and the colors "gree
by jinushaun 16y ago
Anyone who has studied a non-European language will be familiar with this concept. Color names is strongly linked to culture. I'm Cambodian and the colors "green" and "blue" are the exact same word. Context decides which hue one actually means, for example a blue sky versus a green apple. Japanese also has a similar conundrum with blue and green.
When a foreign color is introduced, often times the physical object most associated with that color is used as the color word. Purple in Cambodian is the fruit "plum", and pink translates to literally "pig color". In Japanese, pink is literally "peach color". Even in English there is an example of this phenomenon. Which came first? The color orange or the discovery fruit orange?
The title of the article is a misnomer. Other cultures see colors just fine. They just don't have a name for it.
- superkarn 16y agoWhen does a color become a different color instead of a different shade of the same color? For example, light blue and dark blue are two different colors in Thai, similar to pink and red in English.
- zeteo 16y ago"Which came first? The color orange or the discovery fruit orange?" It seems the fruit came first, as it is mentioned in documents three centuries before the color. The old English name for the color is "geoluhread" (yellow-red). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word)