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Surprisingly in some languages such as in my mother tongue "Pastho" : we have the same one single word for Blue and Green. let's call it blue. So we say "Blue

Surprisingly in some languages such as in my mother tongue "Pastho" : we have the same one single word for Blue and Green. let's call it blue. So we say "Blue like the sky? or blue like the grass"

maxwell 2y ago
While Russian not only separates blue and green, but also light and dark blue. https://www.thoughtco.com/russian-colors-4776553 https://www.thoughtco.com/russian-colors-4776553 And English includes indigo in the ROYGBIV rainbow because of Newton's numerology. https://nationalpost.com/news/why-the-colour-indigo-is-disappearing-from-sir-isaac-newtons-occult-rainbow https://nationalpost.com/news/why-the-colour-indigo-is-disap...
- rexpop 2y ago
  > Someone forgot to check a physics textbook before sewing a flag, which isn’t exactly a shocker. Why does the author find it necessary to mock "scientific accuracy at Gay Pride parades"? Especially when the point of the article is that 7 is no more "scientifically accurate" than the gay 6? I think it's in very poor taste to suggest that to be gay is to be scientifically inaccurate.
  - maxwell 2y ago
    Yeah, I shouldn't've linked to the National Post, someone forgot to check a history textbook before publishing that article, which isn't exactly a shocker. The original rainbow flag from Gilbert Baker had 8 symbolic colors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Baker_(artist)#Flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Baker_(artist)#Flag
Suppafly 2y ago
>Surprisingly in some languages such as in my mother tongue "Pastho" : we have the same one single word for Blue and Green. let's call it blue. The history of language is like that, early on a population would have one word for both and then eventually distinguish a line between blue and green and then later start getting more specific shades from there.

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Surprisingly in some languages such as in my mother tongue "Pastho" : we have the same one single word for Blue and Green. let's call it blue. So we say "Blue

by theawesomekhan 2y ago

Surprisingly in some languages such as in my mother tongue "Pastho" : we have the same one single word for Blue and Green. let's call it blue. So we say "Blue like the sky? or blue like the grass"

maxwell 2y ago
While Russian not only separates blue and green, but also light and dark blue. https://www.thoughtco.com/russian-colors-4776553 https://www.thoughtco.com/russian-colors-4776553 And English includes indigo in the ROYGBIV rainbow because of Newton's numerology. https://nationalpost.com/news/why-the-colour-indigo-is-disappearing-from-sir-isaac-newtons-occult-rainbow https://nationalpost.com/news/why-the-colour-indigo-is-disap...
- rexpop 2y ago
  > Someone forgot to check a physics textbook before sewing a flag, which isn’t exactly a shocker. Why does the author find it necessary to mock "scientific accuracy at Gay Pride parades"? Especially when the point of the article is that 7 is no more "scientifically accurate" than the gay 6? I think it's in very poor taste to suggest that to be gay is to be scientifically inaccurate.
  - maxwell 2y ago
    Yeah, I shouldn't've linked to the National Post, someone forgot to check a history textbook before publishing that article, which isn't exactly a shocker. The original rainbow flag from Gilbert Baker had 8 symbolic colors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Baker_(artist)#Flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Baker_(artist)#Flag
Suppafly 2y ago
>Surprisingly in some languages such as in my mother tongue "Pastho" : we have the same one single word for Blue and Green. let's call it blue. The history of language is like that, early on a population would have one word for both and then eventually distinguish a line between blue and green and then later start getting more specific shades from there.