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Re: additions to Klingon? (color terms)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri May 14 00:51:26 1993
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From: mark <mark@dragonsys.COM>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Thu, 13 May 93 09:15:58 EST
Yes, the Berlin & Kay color hierarchy was what I had in mind,
though I couldn't recall their names. As a matter of fact it is
*not* absolute. I remember when they (or one of them) presented
their research at one of the Berkeley Linguistics Society's
monthly meetings, probably before publication; and one of the
students, I think Ken Whistler, said that Chinese violates it at
the high end by having a primary word for purple but referring
to brown derivatively, as "dirt color", and that this is true
across the numerous Chinese languages and has been so for a long
time (which, given the historical record for Chinese, is a LONG
time).
- marqem
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : mark@dragonsys.com
