Re: Colors in Czirehlat

In a message dated 7/29/01 5:52:34 PM, hmiller@IO.COM writes:

<< >Stage 6B.) If black doesn't split off, blue and green split up, leaving:

>White, Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, warm and cool.  (7 terms.)

This leaves yellowish brown, orange, and pink in the "warm" category, and

blackish brown, gray and purple in the "cool" category? >>

    Indeed it does.

<<I was assuming black and white would be included.>>

    Ah, see we were thinking from two different base points.  You were
thinking of colors as non "black/white/gray"'s, while I was including them.
Yes, your system works fine.

<<I'm not familiar with what color Laker uniforms are. Could they be a hue

intermediate between the blue range and the purple range? Or a shade of

purple that isn't picked up well by TV cameras?>>

    Not that it's terribly relevant by this point, but yes, the latter is
true.  Still, there are those that maintain that they're still purple on TV...

<<I think for Czirehlat I'm settling on a system with five basic hues (red,

yellow, green, blue, purple) plus black, white, and gray. I'll keep the

words for orange and brown, but I'm not sure yet if either or both of them

are basic colors.>>

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    I went to both sites and looked at your diagrams, and I really like your
color system, and it's perfectly workable.  In my first language, I went wild
with color terms.  I kept the 11 basic, tons of extras like "teal",
"magenta", and so forth, and then also more basic color terms, like "warm",
and even a color I called "tree", which describes the colors one sees when
looking at a forest scene in the daytime (every shade of green, yellow,
browns and some black, with the occasional splash of red/purple from a flower
or two...).  Anyway, your system makes "color" sense to me, if that's a real
concept, and that's all that counts, in my book.  :)

-David

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