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Aren't you imposing the modern meaning onto the past? The word didn't mean specifically blue or green originally, but rather both, right? I don't see how this w
by TazeTSchnitzel 3y ago
Aren't you imposing the modern meaning onto the past? The word didn't mean specifically blue or green originally, but rather both, right? I don't see how this would contradict the fourth rule.
- thaumasiotes 3y agoAo still doesn't specifically mean blue or green now.
- saagarjha 3y agoCurious how this works in the modern world, where color is mostly globalized? If I ask for “blue” and I only want that what does it get translated to?
- thaumasiotes 3y agoIt gets translated to ao. Here's the Japanese wikipedia page ( https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9D%92 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9D%92 ) which among other things notes that the word corresponds to "英語のblue". But ao remains the word that refers to the color of plants. https://jisho.org/word/%E9%9D%92 https://jisho.org/word/%E9%9D%92