At 21:59 17/11/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Here are my guesses, together with the half-facetious, half-serious
>reasons for my choices:
>
>clasant red (has a bold, vibrant sound)
>sharf black (has a brutal sound)
>sayl yellow (has a sallow sound)
>plenin green (has a sensible sound)
>sint blue-green (has a 'scintillating' sound)
>murud brown (has an earthy sound)
>lath blue (has a comforting sound)
>celif pink (has a coy sound)
>yev white (has a no-nonsense sound)
>sharday purple (has a whimsical sound)
>
For me:
clasant pink
sharf green
sayl red
plenin white
sint yellow
murud brown
lath black
celif purple
yev blue
sharday blue-green
>Here's my counter-challenge: Do the same with the Tokana colour
>words given below. (To those who have copies of the Tokana-to-English
>dictionary, no fair cheating!)
>
>has brown
>kulhe blue
>kote light grey, blue-grey
>sane yellow
>lohne green
>hemak black
>lune dark grey
>laite red
>hiem white
>
For me:
has dark grey
kulhe brown
kote black
sane blue
lohne yellow
hemak red
lune white
laite green
hiem light grey
>No words for pink or purple...
>
>Matt.
>
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>Matt Pearson
>mpearson@ucla.edu
>UCLA Linguistics Department
>405 Hilgard Avenue
>Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543
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>
>
I'm French. Maybe it has its importance.
Christophe Grandsire
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