The Perception of Color in Language (for conlangers)
Wesley Dean Wesley Dean
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 Published On Oct 2, 2020

One of the most fascinating topics to me: why have we all agreed on which colors to label? Who says your green is my green--linguistically, not optically?

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Lasky, Dorothea (2015). "What Is Color in Poetry?" From Poetry Magazine. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poet...

Lucy, J.A. (2001). "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis." International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...

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https://indo-european.eu/maps/early-b...

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