Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 23 2012 @ 02:22 AM EST |
Interesting - BTW the green traffic light colour was chosen to be different from
red for those suffering from red/green colour blindness. It is shifted towards
the blue.
You can have endless arguments about what colour things are.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 23 2012 @ 03:21 AM EST |
Interesting that in the comments several pointed out that Chinese
words for color may depend on the object as much as the color.
And for traffic lights chinese use the green-green word 绿
rather than the blue-green word 青.
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Authored by: JimDiGriz on Sunday, December 23 2012 @ 06:23 AM EST |
"In Japan, people often refer to traffic lights as being blue in color. And
this is a bit odd, because the traffic signal indicating ‘go’ in Japan is just
as green as it is anywhere else in the world. So why is the color getting lost
in translation?"
That's because there are a lot of words in Japanese that don't have an exact
equivalent in English, and vice-versa.
AFAIK The Japanese word "aoi" is a colour that covers the range from
bluish-green to greenish-blue. "Midori" is more towards the emerald
green part of the spectrum.
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Sunday, December 23 2012 @ 06:41 PM EST |
Specifically, I would like to have seen more of a
biological foundation
about how the brain responds to the
stimuli that are produced when incoming
light reacts with
the several types of cone photoreceptors in the eye. There
are three types of cones sensitive to three different
spectra, resulting in
trichromatic color vision.
According to
Wikipedia, these three
types do not correspond well to
particular colors as we know them. Rather, the
perception of
color is achieved by a complex process that starts with the
differential output of these cells in the retina and it will
be finalized in
the visual cortex and associative areas of
the brain.
I think when they
were doing those experiments on how
people group colours, they should refer
back to the
principal theories on how we perceive colours to see if the
outcome could have been predicted from hypotheses based on
these theories.
Without that,
the investigation into how languages or people tend to group
colours appears arbitrary and lacking in a biological
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 23 2012 @ 11:56 PM EST |
Somewhere in the darkest recesses of my mind, I remember [hearing] something
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Authored by: globularity on Monday, December 24 2012 @ 04:12 AM EST |
Japanese is very context dependent, aoi can mean either blue or green depending
on context.
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- Context - Authored by: myNym on Monday, December 24 2012 @ 04:27 AM EST
- Context - Authored by: Wol on Monday, December 24 2012 @ 06:56 AM EST
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