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The sky is blue.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 7:13 pm
by Invisible Man
Discuss.
Re: The sky is blue.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 7:17 pm
by Chankgeez
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV0tCphFMr8[/youtube]
Re: The sky is blue.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 7:18 pm
by 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
Re: The sky is blue.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 7:23 pm
by Chankgeez
Re: The sky is blue.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 7:43 pm
by popvulture
So much blue sky. So few blue foods.
Re: The sky is blue.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 7:57 pm
by D.o.S.
Re: The sky is blue.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 8:24 pm
by resincum
you see blue
Re: The sky is blue.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 8:29 pm
by snipelfritz
When I was a kid, it was spelled with an "a."
Re: The sky is blue.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 10:45 pm
by casecandy
wfs1234 wrote: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.
Re: The sky is blue.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 10:50 pm
by ck3
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CizU8aB3c8[/youtube]
Re: The sky is blue.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 10:53 pm
by casecandy
nvm
Re: The sky is blue.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 10:57 pm
by ck3
casecandy wrote:Quoting to fix embed

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

Re: The sky is blue.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 11:01 pm
by casecandy
I know man, it's harsh
I been to Gorham. It's aight
Gorham ME vs Gorham NH sudden death round, who wins?
Re: The sky is blue.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 11:13 pm
by ck3
casecandy wrote: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.

Re: The sky is blue.
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 12:04 am
by 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...