Re: Colours

De: Pablo Flores <fflores@...>
Fecha: Mi=E9rcoles 30 de Septiembre de 1998 01:28


>This is something that might interest some of you,
>especially those at the NGL list: a vector system for
>colours!

After the NGL got a different list, this is a forward of what Stephen
DeGrace propossed for colors in NGL (-- Carlos):

Okay, here's my offer of revision. Instead of one system, this module
gives two, a basic and an advanced (or intermediate, if someone down
the road proposes an even more advanced system). The distinction is
subtle. The basic system exists for ease of use (because you don't
have to know anything to use it). In my considered opinion, the basic
system tends to give a more aesthetically pleasing word for whatever
it is you're trying to stab, and is more beautiful and, well,
colourful. The advanced system, while requiring you to think more than
a non-professional would really like in a casual situation, and
producing bigger words, is, in contrast, very regular, limits the
number of morphemes it admits in order to keep things ordered and
tidy, and is as Jack says, probabaly suitable for use by
professionals.

First off, we have three basic classes of colour morphemes.

Class one: Fundamental

hael - blue # yellow
geh - red # cyan
vatil - green # magenta
sugor - black
cin - white

Class two: Basic system shortcuts

taur - yellow
silel - orange
kenan - purple
guray - brown
eslis - grey
cin- - light-
sug- - dark-
note: {sug-} becomes {sugr-} before a vowel

New members can get added to this class if they achieve sufficient
currency and acceptance.

Class three: -k=F2l Derivations and Borrowings

examples:
mark=F2l - sea coloured
:umber: - umber

Combination of morphemes works exactly the same way in either system.
The difference is in protocol.

Basic System Protocol:

My System. You can try and get at a colour using any tool in the
lexicon, from any of the three classes, without worrying too much
about scientific elegance.

Advanced System Protocol:

Jack's system. You should stick to class one morphemes except in the
case of {guray} where the regular derivation is difficult. All
derivation is regular, and therefore, colours can be defined with
sufficient accuracy, one hopes, for the system to be useful to
professionals working in NGL.

Actually, I quite like this mix of systems. What do people think?

Naesverig,

Stephen