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Re: Color Terms

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Friday, July 30, 1999, 2:13
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:02:43 -0600, Ed Heil <edheil@...> wrote:

>Well, the human "basic color term" foci seem to be located at places >in the spectrum where firing for red, green, or blue cone cells >maximizes, minimizes, or where different combinations of those three >maximize or minimize. So if your aliens had more than three types of >cone cell (or the equivalent), or if those cells had different curves >of receptivity along the spectrum, they would engender a different >bodily experience of "basic" colors and thus a different array basic >color terms -- an entirely likely situation!
In fact, the basic color words in Zireen languages (not counting black, white, and shades of gray) are yellow, turquoise, indigo, and = ultraviolet. -- languages of Kolagia---> = +---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/languages.html>--- Thryomanes /"If all Printers were determin'd not to print = any (Herman Miller) / thing till they were sure it would offend no = body, moc.oi @ rellimh <-/ there would be very little printed." -Ben = Franklin