Re: OT-ish:Conlang Census

On Monday 19 January 2004 02:03 pm, Pavel Iosad wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > >The one that the Welsh call 'glas'.
> >
> > Is that Blue and Green?  I don't remember.
>
> That's the point - neither English nor Russian has a single word for
> that set of wavelengths which evoke 'glas' to a speaker of Welsh.
> Actually, I tend to think of it as the colour of the sea, which may be
> blue, or green (but not acid or in general light green), or grey, you
> name it.
>
> Pavel
> --
> Pavel Iosad               pavel_iosad@mail.ru
>
> Nid byd, byd heb wybodaeth
>                  --Welsh saying
>
Ah, the Kélen an-há (sea-color).

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