Re: NATLANG: Colours

In a message dated 2004:04:22 05:07:41 AM, ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:

>> Russian has two words for "blue"
>> (corresponding psychologically to the English distinction between
>> "red" and "pink").
>
>Seems fair enough to me. I'd not be surprised to find languages with two
>words for "green" with similar psychological distinction.
    Yes! To my thinking/perception there is/are:

    white/moonlight/bone
    grey/ash/metallic
    brown//umber
    black/coal
        yellow/sunflower
        orange/DayGloOrange/saffron
        pink/salmon/[a certain] skintone
        red/blood/cinnabar
                    sea&sky/earthly "light blue"
            jade/glowing "light green"
            jungle/dense "dark green"
                    Yves Klein Bleu/spacey "dark blue"
                            purple/blacklight

    These colour distinctions may have arisen from my multicultural
upbringing and constant exposure to "non-conventional" Otherness and cultural
hybridization. Ethico-Aesthetic Choice also must be a factor (besides Nature and
Nurture [genetics and socio-cultural environment/ecology(ies)]).


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