Who decides what should be called what? like why is the sky called the colour BLUE and the grass GREEN?
January 5th, 2009
As far as color perception, some people have less of it than others. For example, reds are less vivid for some people (typically male). Shades of red and brown aren't as readily distinguishable by these people. This probably has something to do with the number of cones (color reception cells) in the eye each person has, as well as language limitations.
Color perception also changes with age. Structures in the eye, for example, cause it to be less sensitive to blues as one gets older. That's why the sky is never as blue as they remember it when they were children.
This age change perception can be also be seen in the color patterns of some artists. It's an interesting area of study.
Cos I don't know who....And there isn't a god so..your guess is as good as mine.
Now scientist have gone and given wavelength ranges to colours of light so that people can be pretty difinitive about which colours are 'officially' red.
What we can't say, however, is whether when I look at the sky and see the colour 'blue' is my colour blue the same as your colour red and we just don't know it?
lol. Zany thought. :-)
...my point being, who decided what any of the words of the English language meant? Sounds have meanings, and they usually aren't at all self-explanatory; that's just the nature of language.
The more sophisticated the language the more precise descriptions can be.
I easily can think of twenty words indicating either blue or green.
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