[83825] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: purple
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (naHQun)
Thu Jan 3 14:02:13 2008
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:59:09 -0500
From: naHQun <nahqun@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <86D26CE6-20C1-450B-98CA-F4D30039FD77@embarqmail.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On 1/3/08, Doq <doq@embarqmail.com> wrote:
> Many human languages lack a word for purple. That doesn't mean the
> speakers of those languages can't see the color. It just means that
> Maltz neglected to include it in his definitions of {SuD} and {Doq}.
> He also didn't include chartreuse, mauve, brown, grey and a lot of
> other colors.
brown~Doq 'ej wovbe' MSN?
> There is no reason to fixate on purple and jump to
> conclusions about Klingon physiology.
"The fact that neither SuD nor Doq includes what is called "violet" or
"purple" in Federation Standard may be related to KLINGON
PHYSIOLOGY--that is, exactly how the Klingon eye processes different
wavelengths of light." KGT pp82-83 emphasis added
>
> Okrand was playing with a linguistic generalization when he created
> his color words. Some human languages have only two words for color
snip
linguistic joke; got it-
more bluer-purple-SuD
more reder-purple-Doq
I understand-discussion over.
~naHQun
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