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Colours are fun in many languages. For instance, Japanese and Vietnamese do not differentiate between blue and green and require context specific clarification
by inkyoto 10mo ago
Colours are fun in many languages.
For instance, Japanese and Vietnamese do not differentiate between blue and green and require context specific clarification, e.g «traffic light blue-green».
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- rvrs 10mo agoJapanese has a word for green now 緑 (midori). Traffic lights use the word for blue for historical reasons
- nephihaha 10mo agoCeltic languages, and I believe Mayan, had a similar thing going on with blue and green. A lot of languages never distinguished orange from yellow really either.