Re: CHAT: Indigo (was: Orange)

> Van: Muke Tever
> Onderwerp: CHAT: Re: Indigo (was: Orange)
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> From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
> >Grr... I hate this kind of remarks. Saying that indigo is a kind of blue
is
> >like saying that orange is a kind of red or green is a kind of blue.
Well, off course the whole thing with colors is, that there are a infinite
number of hues on the visible spectrum, and it is just a matter of taste or
convenience in how much colors they are split up. Fot everyday purposes, six
or seven is about enough, but for more specific things, people need more
accurate classifications. Someone who works with colors often (painter,
fashion designer) will hoave a better eye for differences in color.

To me, for instance, there is a huge difference between sky blue and dark
blue, and I am still frustrated for not having seperate words for it. We do
have pink and lilac to go with red, why not something to go with blue? Which
colors do have a name in a languageis a matter of history. I can imagine
that the original colors in a language were given to colors of things you
saw often (green grass, brown trees, red blood etc.). Shades that were more
rare became classified with one of the existing colors. So ones perception
of color would depend on cultural and personal experience. It would be
interesting, for that matter, to see what kind of color names Inuit have,
compared to, say, some african jungle tribe, seeing that they live in quite
different environments, colorwise.

Maarten

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