Белое насмерть борется с черным?
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arpadВ англо-саксонском "черное" - "blaece", а "белое" - "blac".
Объединяющее свойство - отсутствие цвета.
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In Anglo-Saxon, BLACK is blaece and WHITE is blac (so we get blanch, blank, bleak).
They both based on a common feature - absense of color.
Accordingly to anthropologists, words for colors enter in to a culture's vocabulary in strict sequence:
All languages have BLACK or WHITE. (color of night, color of mourning, color of nothing)
If there are three words, then comes RED. (blood?)
After that, GREEN or YELLOW.
The fifth is either YELLOW or GREEN, depending on the fourth word.
Six, BLUE.
The seventh, BROWN.
After that comes PURPLE, PINK, ORANGE, and GREY in no particular order.
taken from patchmonkey.net
Объединяющее свойство - отсутствие цвета.
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In Anglo-Saxon, BLACK is blaece and WHITE is blac (so we get blanch, blank, bleak).
They both based on a common feature - absense of color.
Accordingly to anthropologists, words for colors enter in to a culture's vocabulary in strict sequence:
All languages have BLACK or WHITE. (color of night, color of mourning, color of nothing)
If there are three words, then comes RED. (blood?)
After that, GREEN or YELLOW.
The fifth is either YELLOW or GREEN, depending on the fourth word.
Six, BLUE.
The seventh, BROWN.
After that comes PURPLE, PINK, ORANGE, and GREY in no particular order.
taken from patchmonkey.net
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Date: 2004-12-25 05:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-25 05:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-25 05:37 am (UTC)Actually I don't much beleive in the "color history" too. It's funny and thought inspiring, but anthropology is a tricky science full of great ideas without proof and contradicting methods.
Language history has a better stance, though.
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Date: 2004-12-25 07:43 am (UTC)Источник этого утверждения
Date: 2004-12-25 08:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-25 12:48 pm (UTC)Пример англичан, обходящихся без голубого, позволяет немножко понять племена, имеющие только три цвета - черный, белый и красный. Черный цвета листвы, черный цвета моря...
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Date: 2004-12-25 01:53 pm (UTC)- Ребе, скажите, чёрный - это цвет?
- Несомненно.
- Ребе, а белый - это тоже цвет?
- Конечно.
- Видишь, Хаим, сам ребе подтверждает, что я продал тебе цветной телевизор.
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Date: 2004-12-25 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-26 11:24 am (UTC)red is the most prominent colour receptor (cone) - in the retina.
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Date: 2004-12-26 11:36 am (UTC)