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originally posted by: dude1
While my vision isn't very good for afar and even same for near , i can see colors okay.
I thought most people could see the different shade of green. When you look at it its like lime vs the others unripe lemon.
Training can help see shades better , if you look at many angles of different leavss and shouts of different plants , you can see many shades of green , at fist they all look like a confusing continuum , but enough comparisons between them can make them discrete.
I don't buy the "can't see blue line" , they didn't have a word for alot of things they can perceive and understand.
The word consciousness is even newer , and there are many others.
originally posted by: Prene
This old nonsense again. Notice zero replies to Djarums mention of tekhelet.
The sky used to be purple so colors were categorized differently until AD. But blue was always a color. So was pink. And transparent. And sparkley.
originally posted by: howtonhawky
Much of the sea is green and not blue.
If they did not see blue then why did they not describe the sea as being green?
originally posted by: Blue Shift
Yeah, color is a spectrum. Different societies divide the spectrum up differently. And the way our brains perceive color is hugely dependent on context.
originally posted by: IAMNOTYOU
a reply to: toms54
Do you remember the fuss a couple of years back, about a picture of a dress, where people saw two different colors. Some saw a blue dress, others saw a golden color i think it was. The mind got tricked somehow, and some people could reverse it and suddenly see the other color.
originally posted by: toms54
originally posted by: IAMNOTYOU
a reply to: toms54
Do you remember the fuss a couple of years back, about a picture of a dress, where people saw two different colors. Some saw a blue dress, others saw a golden color i think it was. The mind got tricked somehow, and some people could reverse it and suddenly see the other color.
The dress. Both of the articles in the OP have picture of the dress and cite it as evidence. I left that out because the post was already getting too long. But they discuss it if you want to look at one of the links.
they are. For instance, Most people think Oklahoma means " land of the indians" but its really a portmanteu'd choctaw word meaning Red Water.
originally posted by: toms54
originally posted by: Butterfinger
a reply to: Wrapscalllionn
From what Ive been told, the Chickasaw and Choctaw languages were formed well before De Soto recorded his experiences, 2 centuries before the removal.
Some others I'm noticing with my limited knowledge
"Oka" means Water
"Okti" is Snow
The Ok brings it to relation with water, some root word in ancient Muskogean?
These Chickasaw and Choctaw languages sound very interesting. I would like to see a thread on just that.
originally posted by: Wrapscalllionn
they are. For instance, Most people think Oklahoma means " land of the indians" but its really a portmanteu'd choctaw word meaning Red Water.
originally posted by: toms54
originally posted by: Butterfinger
a reply to: Wrapscalllionn
From what Ive been told, the Chickasaw and Choctaw languages were formed well before De Soto recorded his experiences, 2 centuries before the removal.
Some others I'm noticing with my limited knowledge
"Oka" means Water
"Okti" is Snow
The Ok brings it to relation with water, some root word in ancient Muskogean?
These Chickasaw and Choctaw languages sound very interesting. I would like to see a thread on just that.
You sound like a Mahani.;
originally posted by: Wrapscalllionn
they are. For instance, Most people think Oklahoma means " land of the indians" but its really a portmanteu'd choctaw word meaning Red Water.
originally posted by: toms54
originally posted by: Butterfinger
a reply to: Wrapscalllionn
From what Ive been told, the Chickasaw and Choctaw languages were formed well before De Soto recorded his experiences, 2 centuries before the removal.
Some others I'm noticing with my limited knowledge
"Oka" means Water
"Okti" is Snow
The Ok brings it to relation with water, some root word in ancient Muskogean?
These Chickasaw and Choctaw languages sound very interesting. I would like to see a thread on just that.
You sound like a Mahani.;
originally posted by: Wrapscalllionn
they are. For instance, Most people think Oklahoma means " land of the indians" but its really a portmanteu'd choctaw word meaning Red Water.
originally posted by: toms54
originally posted by: Butterfinger
a reply to: Wrapscalllionn
From what Ive been told, the Chickasaw and Choctaw languages were formed well before De Soto recorded his experiences, 2 centuries before the removal.
Some others I'm noticing with my limited knowledge
"Oka" means Water
"Okti" is Snow
The Ok brings it to relation with water, some root word in ancient Muskogean?
These Chickasaw and Choctaw languages sound very interesting. I would like to see a thread on just that.
You sound like a Mahani.;
originally posted by: Wrapscalllionn
they are. For instance, Most people think Oklahoma means " land of the indians" but its really a portmanteu'd choctaw word meaning Red Water.
originally posted by: toms54
originally posted by: Butterfinger
a reply to: Wrapscalllionn
From what Ive been told, the Chickasaw and Choctaw languages were formed well before De Soto recorded his experiences, 2 centuries before the removal.
Some others I'm noticing with my limited knowledge
"Oka" means Water
"Okti" is Snow
The Ok brings it to relation with water, some root word in ancient Muskogean?
These Chickasaw and Choctaw languages sound very interesting. I would like to see a thread on just that.
originally posted by: toms54
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: toms54
Without words to describe them, how would you describe them?
Cultures that have no word for zero...how do they describe zero?
Do you not recognize it because there's no word or is there no word because you don't recognize it?
These authors suggest the latter.
i have been called an apple before ( red on the outside, white on the inside), but i dont know what mahani means.
originally posted by: skunkape23
You sound like a Mahani.;
originally posted by: Wrapscalllionn
they are. For instance, Most people think Oklahoma means " land of the indians" but its really a portmanteu'd choctaw word meaning Red Water.
originally posted by: toms54
originally posted by: Butterfinger
a reply to: Wrapscalllionn
From what Ive been told, the Chickasaw and Choctaw languages were formed well before De Soto recorded his experiences, 2 centuries before the removal.
Some others I'm noticing with my limited knowledge
"Oka" means Water
"Okti" is Snow
The Ok brings it to relation with water, some root word in ancient Muskogean?
These Chickasaw and Choctaw languages sound very interesting. I would like to see a thread on just that.