Did anyone else hear the story on NPR yesterday about color?
Apparently a lot of cultures don't have more than 2 or 3 words for
different colors.
Sylrog
On Jan 28, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Jean Waddie wrote:
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
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