• sunbather@beehaw.org
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    2 months ago

    linguistics of color is interesting. classic example is russian having distinct words for light and dark blue as well (golubój/sínij respectively) with no generic “blue”

    • lars@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      To consider this from other languages’ points of view, English has distinct words for light red (pink) and not-light-red (red) with no generic word that refers to both colors.