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it's a serious paper on a light hearted topic? or absolute nonsense but funny? I'm not certain if the Journal of Irreproducible Results has any standards about
by fsckboy 3y ago
it's a serious paper on a light hearted topic? or absolute nonsense but funny? I'm not certain if the Journal of Irreproducible Results has any standards about these things.
- arketyp 3y agoThe introduction was interesting and thankfully the reference checks out as serious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms
- fsckboy 3y agoit's funny one of the links on that wiki page I had already visited, "Tinctures in heraldry"
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- kens 3y agoTo clarify, the Journal of Irreproducible Results was a magazine of scientific humor. The article is a plausible but absurd explanation for a real linguistic phenomenon, Basic Color Terms.