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I taught English in Mongolia years ago. My students did not make a distinction between orange and yellow. But they had distinct words for shades of blue that ca
by asimpleusecase 3y ago
I taught English in Mongolia years ago. My students did not make a distinction between orange and yellow. But they had distinct words for shades of blue that came across as primary. It was not a research project, just working interactions.
- sophacles 3y agoHonestly I see a lot of native english speakers struggle with the difference quite often. I drove an old constructio pickup for a while - very much yellow (even according to ford). Yet a very large number of people talked about my big orange truck.
- cjohnson318 3y agoOrange as a concept didn't arrive in Northern Europe until oranges, the fruit, were imported through (Moorish?) Spain. Chromatically, the space between red and yellow is a lot tighter than the space between yellow and blue. We don't really need a separate color name there, but we have one; it's a distinction that English speakers agree on. If you look at the Munsel color system, one of the first scientific, equidistant color systems, it goes from green, blue, purple, red, yellow, "skipping" orange as a distinct, named color.