Re: OT: terms for people with different hair colours

--- Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:

> On 2008-10-23 R A Brown wrote:
> > As for hair color in the Iliad, cf.
> > http://www.white-history.com/homer01.htm
> >
>
> One wonders just how light hair would have been
> to be considered yellow by the Mediterraneans.
Well, in Taiwan, any hair that is not true black gets
labeled "yellow."  I had several students in my
classes in Taiwan who my students and other teachers
informed me had yelow hair.  I was quite surprised to
learn the fact, having never realized that yellow
included such very dark shades of what I had always
assumed to be brown, but they were quite convinced.

Adam

Ed ñavisud in junu suñu pera nun regrediri ad ul Erodu, regrediruns ad il
sustrus provinchi peu'l via aurra.

Machu 2:12