Gail & Scott Finke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
I also once interviewed someone from the Pantone Institute, which is run by the Pantone company that puts together formulas for inks. She told me, very seriously, that green was the first color to appear in the universe. Those color people are a funny lot! Gail Finke
I know there are linguistic studies that aim to show the cognitive importance, if you like, of different colours by the order in which languages develop them. You have to work on words for colours that are not linked to the description of an object - orange or aubergine, for example, just say "the colour of that thing". But all languages have words for light and dark, black and white. I'm pretty sure the next one is red, then green and blue interchangeably. So if a language has a word for either green or blue, it must also have a word for red - if it has no word for red, it can't have a word for green or blue. I seem to remember it goes a bit random after that.
So green may have been the first colour to appear, but red is the most important one to identify and tell your friends about!
Actually .... wouldn't there be volcanoes before plants? ;-) Jean -- Jean Waddie _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
