Re: I came in late.

Tom Wier wrote:
> Oh, you'd be surprised.  Afterall, there are languages in Paupua New Guinea
> which have only two colors, basicly meaning "light" and "dark".  The idea
> is not that a language *can't* not indicate a given meaning, but that the
> *probability* is that it can.
Well, in the case of those Papua New Guinean languages, they can (IIUC)
render colors by comparing things to other things, something like "the
color of leaves", it's just not a lexical item.

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