The sky is blue.

[Invisible Man]

Discuss.

[Chankgeez]

[01010111]

I've heard that people didn't always perceive the sly as blue. I'm pretty sure there are references in the bible to it being green?0

[Chankgeez]

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/20/scien ... -dark.html

[popvulture]

So much blue sky. So few blue foods.

[D.o.S.]

[resincum]

you see blue

[snipelfritz]

When I was a kid, it was spelled with an "a."

[casecandy]

I've heard that people didn't always perceive the sly as blue. I'm pretty sure there are references in the bible to it being green?0

This is because people could not see blue until very recently, <2500 years.

There are no words for blue, per se, in the Bible (we don't know that kachol meant "blue").

There are no words for blue, per se, in Homer (the sea is "wine-dark" in a few places).

And today, certain relatively isolated tribes have difficulty perceiving blue, but can distinguish different shades of green way better than Westerners.

Etc.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... tists.html, http://www.sciencealert.com/humans-coul ... h-suggests, http://www.iflscience.com/brain/when-di ... color-blue, etc., plus https://goddidntsaythat.com/2012/05/29/ ... the-bible/ and also http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/world ... .html?_r=0

Moses could not have seen my seapunk hair.

This would have been to his benefit.

[ck3]

[casecandy]

nvm

[ck3]

Quoting to fix embed

Thanks. I was editing to fix embed as you were quoting ... darn https protocol ruining my blue sky.

[casecandy]

I know man, it's harsh

I been to Gorham. It's aight

Gorham ME vs Gorham NH sudden death round, who wins?

[ck3]

I know man, it's harsh

I been to Gorham. It's aight

Gorham ME vs Gorham NH sudden death round, who wins?

NH by a landslide ... they can afford handguns, and we have to scrounge pennies for a pointed stick.

[snipelfritz]

Color is very much a matter of linguistic determinism.

Scientifically, color is simply a spectrum, a small portion of which is visible to our human eyes.

Any distinctions are therefore arbitrary and defined by language. That is to say: the color isn't the word; the word is the color.

So why should a civilization with no word for blue go around thinking of an arbitrary point on a spectrum as something for which they have no word when they could be focusing on all of the different shades of light green to which they have given names and therefore recognize easily?

*catches breath* Now don't even get me started on hos purple doesn't exist...