Surprisingly many languages share the same primary color terms. It was interesting to see that the colors in Tahiti and southern Mexico were found to be like English with only one exception. They both did not have blue and green, but put them together to make grue. Is it a coincidence or something beyond that to have three languages with almost the exact same colors? There must be something within a color that points it to certain words. The researchers did have a theory, but it was proved wrong, but they still are looking for more similarities. They did find that universals across languages could have something to do with it. The article also talked about the way that a language builds their color words is restricted; this could show why there are so many replicas. This makes me wonder what they would say about the hues that we have in America. We might only have 11 colors, but if you go to the paint store or get a box of crayons you will see that there are hundreds of thousands of colors. Those new colors don’t seem to follow any pattern for naming. It would be interesting to find an article on the naming of hues in other countries because ours seem a little wacky. Even nail polish has different names; where do they come up with something like “Friar Friar Pants on Fire” and would that be allowed in other countries? While we do see many similarities in color, there are other languages that differ so greatly even though they do have similar colors. At the end, they talked about giving directions is based on your language. I already did a post on that with a previous article, but I did want to say that it really relies on the type of language and how it’s formed to what all things are similar and what varies so greatly.
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