Re: Color Terms
| From: | Sylvia Sotomayor <kelen@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 18, 2000, 18:34 |
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On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:
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> >
> > It occured to me that the Kélen have a rather complex color scheme where the
> > name of the color changes according to what is being described. The way a Kélen
> > person would describe it is that they have 4 different sets of color terms, 4
> > being the sacred number of course.
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> Oh, this is good! I wonder - is there any natlang that shows
> a similar pattern - Berlin and Kay don't mention it, for sure,
> but it look so natural, logical and satisfactory.
>
Thank you.
No, Berlin and Kay don't mention anything like this, and indeed their
methodology sort of precludes it, which is why I gave the probable names of
colors of little plastic chips.
But natural languages do this to a small extent with words like blonde and
brunette.
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