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How was each color decided? E.g. the sky is blue why not green or yellow
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How was each color decided? E.g. the sky is blue why not green or yellow
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justathought ... you are told a rose is reds ... but if you are red/green color blind you dont see what i see ... so are you sure that what i see as reds is what everyone sees as reds ... ???
Exactly so who made the decision what a color should be called
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If I was to answer specifically who as a speculation I would say it relates to the fact that we had many cultures all over the world creating similar structures that today we cannot fathom the scale of construction necessary with the tools available which were also cultures that had no contact with each other supposedly.
Most of these cultures say they were taught by “star people” or spoke with “the stars” including cultivation, sciences, written and spoken language which are some of the base languages today’s names for colours are derived from.
So I would say the teachers were the ones who named the early base colours being very similar across all languages.
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Unless seeing a lack of colour many people whom are colour blind go their entire lives without knowing. It’s the mixing of colours that stands out as certain colour mixtures seem to come up with improbable results and the colours of the rainbow seem to not follow a smooth pattern.
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It is something that was seemingly developed simultaneously by many different cultures around the world in generally the same pattern known as the hierarchy of colour names.
Resent research suggest the hierarchy of colour matches our reaction to said colour frequencies thus those with a stronger reaction were named earlier.
As for who precisely chose the name for each colour it seems as if it was a collaboration of evolution in languages with simple mass preference which determined the outcome of the colours name along side the original words meanings.
Quote from the link above as example
Basically blacks original use was to blacken or to burn but also was the name used for ink by olde English times but today it still holds relation to the common colour of ink and the results of burning. The curious part is that through most various cultures they all seem to start with similar linguistic sounds despite being completely different languages, colour was already a universal language of sorts and origins of specifically whom decided the name are lost to time.
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Thank you I will check out the link. I love interesting facts .
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