tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post6082880354841016626..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: Some richness of the spiritUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-75259225045219175612015-08-17T20:18:22.257+01:002015-08-17T20:18:22.257+01:00James - perhaps their word for "sea" was...James - perhaps their word for "sea" was enough, so the sea is sea-coloured. Sometimes it is dark - as red wine is dark.A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-22329174662782385042015-08-17T20:04:48.177+01:002015-08-17T20:04:48.177+01:00Ancient Greek lacked words to describe either blue...Ancient Greek lacked words to describe either blue or green.<br /><br />Exactly what I was going to point out, from a book which Stephen Fry prefaced in 2006. Though that was about the blue, not the green.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-90721932698451926192015-08-17T19:37:27.566+01:002015-08-17T19:37:27.566+01:00Wildgoose - thanks for the link. It's an inter...Wildgoose - thanks for the link. It's an interesting subject, one I've come across but never explored. Makes one wonder about the accuracy of translation.<br /><br />Sackers - I've never heard that. Slight differences presumably.<br /><br /><br /> A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-86735118176149400222015-08-17T11:35:15.471+01:002015-08-17T11:35:15.471+01:00I don't know about German and Yellow, but I do...I don't know about German and Yellow, but I do know that Russian distinguishes between light-blue and dark-blue, with separate words for separate "colours".<br />Wildgoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595915411975940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-48282565684320601612015-08-17T11:33:52.196+01:002015-08-17T11:33:52.196+01:00And of course that long room of books is now the e...And of course that long room of books is now the endless stream to be found on the internet.<br /><br />Continuing my segue into colour perception (with apologies), here is the article I read mentioning how recently Japanese separated blue from green.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/05/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-i/" rel="nofollow">Colours</a>.<br />Wildgoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595915411975940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-39293550884847113602015-08-17T11:31:28.766+01:002015-08-17T11:31:28.766+01:00I read long ago that yellow in German means a diff...I read long ago that yellow in German means a different range of colour.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-18025688658053648612015-08-17T11:24:28.932+01:002015-08-17T11:24:28.932+01:00If you forgive a slight segue, the reason why Home...If you forgive a slight segue, the reason why Homer describes the sea as "wine-dark" wan't just to wax poetic, but because he had no other means of describing the sea's colour.<br /><br />Ancient Greek lacked words to describe either blue or green.<br /><br />Different languages assign colours to a set of categories and they add colours to these categories in the same sequence. I remember reading that Japanese only really started to distinguish between blue and green after the post-1945 US Occupation simply because the English-speaking Americans did.<br /><br />Here's a recent article about <a href="http://nautil.us/issue/26/color/why-red-means-red-in-almost-every-language-rd" rel="nofollow">language and colour</a>.<br />Wildgoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595915411975940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-64886463470704239192015-08-17T10:40:02.028+01:002015-08-17T10:40:02.028+01:00So enriching.So enriching.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.com