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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This goes for other colors too, such as blue in ancient greece. Also, Homer regarded wine, the sea, and sheep as all being the same colour, which is ‘red’.

  https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/why-there-was-no-word-for-blue-in-ancient-greece-and-how-homer-and-aristotle-perceived-colors

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also in Japanese they didn’t had a separate word for green for a very long time. Green was just a shade of blue. It’s why a lot of things like fruits and vegetables have blue in the name like 青豆 aomame literally blue bean or 青林檎 aoringo literally blue apple. Or why they call the green light on traffic lights blue.

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The traffic light thing is actually quite interesting

      youtu.be/xgE2FKYzyXw

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For example, the pineapple was named by a British explorer bereft of any understanding of the fruit

  GORGEOUS piece of polite savaging right there! 😂

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