--Posted By johannes to <http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/01/vocabulary-of-smell.htm>monochrom at 1/19/2009 09:17:00 AM
So why is it that the words we use to describe smells are the names
of actual things with particular odors (rose, ammonia, hay, sulphur),
while we have abstract words for color (red, green, light, dark) and
touch (rough, smooth, hard, soft)?
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