Re: Logical?

En réponse à "Mike S." <mcslason@...>:

> >
> >You betcha.  Kay and Kempton established that English-speakers
> >who are asked "Which is more like color chip A, color chip B or
> >color chip C?" consistently get the answer wrong because of
> >Whorfian lock-in.  We give the answer B, whereas C is correct,
> >because C is on the wrong side of the blue/green divide.
> >And this persists even when we are shown the evidence: damn it all,
> >A and B are both *blue*, and C is *green* (or vice versa) and that's
> >all there is to it.
> >
> >But Mazateco speakers, who don't have separate words for "blue"
> and "green",
> >consistently get the right answer.
>
> I found an url "slide show" which illustrates what you mention:
>
> http://www.stir.ac.uk/Departments/HumanSciences/Psychology/46AC/Language3/in
> dex.htm
>
I looked at the slide with the choice, and to me it was obvious that B related
to C and that A was not at its place. To me B and C were clearly blue and A
green. I was surprised that the next slide stated that an English speaker would
take A and B together to be green and C to be alone as blue! Come on, the
colour of B is blue, right? Or at least it's mainly blue!!!

Christophe.

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