On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Andre Langevin wrote: > Among some amazonian groups, there is a single word for both green or > blue, But if you show people both green and blue colors and ask if these > are different, they will say they are. They just don't find it usefull > for their purposes to distinguish linguistically these two retinian > impressions. Now, talk about the color of snow to an Inuit...
I heard before that Greek doesn't (or didn't) have a word for "blue" as we know it. It was always the "wine-red sea" or words to that effect. I have no idea if my memory or that information is at all accurate. chris
