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It's a linguistics thing, it's about word usage more than about colour. You ask someone to get a book off the shelf, and you say "get the blue book" and the per
by magarnicle 6mo ago
It's a linguistics thing, it's about word usage more than about colour. You ask someone to get a book off the shelf, and you say "get the blue book" and the person is confused because they see a green book.
We are usually not specific in our day-to-day language, and this exposes/clarifies the issue.
- xatax 6mo agoI think the "numeric" equivalent to this would be "is this a few/many?" And you would get some number arguing how "several" is a distinct category in the same way this post has people talking about cyan.