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The link to the 2001 article they base it from is broken, but it sounds like all their color words are just derived from nouns, maybe with some affix indicating
by meepmorp 6y ago
The link to the 2001 article they base it from is broken, but it sounds like all their color words are just derived from nouns, maybe with some affix indicating 'of the color like'. The description is too vague to make a lot of sense.
There's lots of really weird and interesting things about Australian languages that would make better subjects for an article, like the avoidance register in Warlpiri. Hard to see why they chose that particular one.
- rq1 6y agoFrom my understanding the difference lies in the object/animal chosen to describe the colour wrt. to the situation. You’d use the red parrot if I may say to describe an angry wordy person becoming red of anger. And you’d use another object/animal to describe the exact same colour in another context. Say red frog for your shining new prince or whatever.