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Yea, in Vietnamese, blue is "blue-green like the sea" and green is "blue-green like a leaf", presumably a call-back to before the two colors were linguistically
by simplicio 6y ago
Yea, in Vietnamese, blue is "blue-green like the sea" and green is "blue-green like a leaf", presumably a call-back to before the two colors were linguistically distinguished.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> blue is "blue-green like the sea" Hmm. In contrast, it always bothered me that English idioms referred to the sea as blue when you can go look at it and it's a deep green. (Formative experiences of seeing what color the sea is took place in the Bay Area.)
- simplicio 6y agoInterestingly, trying to figure out what color Homer meant by his commonly used phrase "the wine-dark sea" was one of the things that led people to realize the links between language and color discussed in the article. While the colors of the ocean and wine look pretty different to us, its apparently common in other languages to group them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea_(Homer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea_(Homer)