Re: Color associations

In a message dated 2000:09:04 4:33:40 PM, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.YI.ORG writes:

>They aren't really abstractions tho... for example, the monitor you're
>looking at builds it colors using additive colors (red/green/blue pixels)
>instead of subtractive colors (like paint). It's just that we don't
>normally play with colored lights; we're more likely to play with colored
>materials like paints, instead.
    That's what I meant. We don't normally play with coloured light. But in a
developing tropical rainforest island culture like Autonomia Isola Verde's,
that is what they knew best - from hands-on experience - when Caos Pidgin was
being shaped from a jargon to a pidgin (& later to a stable, expanded
pidgin... & finally a creole).

    czHANg

"It would be ironic if the answer to Babel
were pidgin and not Pentecost."
- George Steiner,  _After Babel:
  Aspects of Language & Translation_