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"Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages" is a fun read. It covers this blue-green distinction and a few other language cur
by zone411 7y ago
"Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages" is a fun read. It covers this blue-green distinction and a few other language curiosities.
- martopix 7y agoAwesome book, and one of the things I remember best about it is indeed about colours. He says historians of literature wondered whether ancient (homeric) Greeks were colourblind, since they describe the sea as "wine red"; but in fact it's just that they used "red" to describe certain dark colours. This later already changed in classical Greece.