Re: NATLANG: Colours
| From: | Amanda Babcock <ababcock@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 23, 2004, 16:28 |
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 05:37:01PM -0400, Javier BF wrote:
> In Spanish, "azul" refers to any blue, it is not
> restricted to light blue like the English subcategory
> "azure" or the Russian category "goluboj";
I am amazed to find out that "azure" in English means
"light blue". I always assumed it was a particularly
saturated, overwhelming deep blue - like a good sapphire.
Probably because there was no crayon for it.
Amanda
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