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What I find most fascinating about Basic Color Terms is the regularity across cultures, worldviews and languages. If a language has 2 terms for color, they are
by rendall 5y ago
What I find most fascinating about Basic Color Terms is the regularity across cultures, worldviews and languages. If a language has 2 terms for color, they are always "light" and "dark". If it has 3 terms for color, the third term is always "red". If it has 4 terms for color, the fourth term is always "yellow" or "green". 5 terms, the language has both "yellow" and "green".
- R0b0t1 5y agoYes, interesting. A lot of fruit is red and people see red, so there seems to be some link there. Many animals do not see red. Foliage is green (leafy plants), or maybe yellow (dried grasses) depending on area.
- Jensson 5y agoOr the red is for tracking the blood of a bleeding hunted animal. We don't have the nose so we'd have to do it by sight.
- DFHippie 5y agoI find it interesting that the last terms in the hierarchy are pastels. If you have one basic pastel, it's grey. Two: you have grey and pink. Three: grey, pink, and robin's egg blue. Pastel brown, purple, and green are easy for the human eye to distinguish (yellow and orange less so), but they never make the cut. Actually, I speaking a bit off the cuff. I don't recall where grey is in the hierarchy -- it's towards the end -- but the last two are pink and pastel blue.
- chrismcb 5y agoIs it"always" it is it "usually" I thought there were a few exceptions to this grouping.