Re: Color Terms
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 22, 2000, 0:38 |
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On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:22:26 -0500, Carlos Thompson
<carlos_thompson@...> wrote:
>At least all the natlangs I know have that kind of behaviour at some
>level. At least between people and things there are some complexities
>in English
> things people
> pink white
> brown black
> light brown red
> light brown yellow
>With "white", "black", "red" and "yellow" meaning something different
>for things.
You also have a "blue" heron that's really blue-gray, "red" hair that's a
vaguely reddish shade of brown, "black" and "green" tea, "blue" grass.....
Colors in English (and presumably other languages) seem to be very
context-sensitive, and there's a strong tendency to use "simple" color
words in preference to more precise ones.
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