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if you look into Japanese history, they used one word for what we would call blue and green. so they could surely see it, but they might think of it as a specia
by nemomarx 2y ago
if you look into Japanese history, they used one word for what we would call blue and green. so they could surely see it, but they might think of it as a special case of green, like how pink and orange can be a special case of red in some historical eras. I believe treating blue as "dark green" is sometimes seen?
- skirmish 2y agoEven today, Russians distinguish light blue from dark blue as completely different colors (голубой vs синий). Culturally different color understanding is not rare at all. For me, personally, English-speakers are being weird when they distinguish pink and red as colors; they are obviously just lightness shades!
- nemomarx 2y agosee I think some shades of pink are more of a weird red purple? like fuchsia and magenta have a different tone. I believe what we call "bright pink" is kinda weird wavelength wise anyway though, I remember old YouTube essays about it.
- knome 2y agobrown is just dark orange, but is treated as separate culturally.
- gehwartzen 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language&wprov=rarw1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%E2%80%93gr...