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   Basqueian said, 11 months ago

   There is some backup to this statement, per Homer’s epic poetry, which does not mention the color blue
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 11 months ago

   Considerably older than Homer:

   Exodus 24:10

   10 "and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky. "
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   algebraboyymxb said, 11 months ago

   yes, but in the original hebrew the color blue was not there at all.
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   Weapon Brown said, 11 months ago

   Yeah, but SHE didn’t think of making RAY out of it… So THERE!
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   mynx wormwood said, 11 months ago

   @Weapon Brown

   Ronald Raygun is dead. Unicorns are immortal.
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   puddleglum1066 said, 11 months ago

   WNYC’s “Radiolab” show on color had a fascinating segment on the matter of “discovering” the color blue. Homer’s poetry mentions lots of colors, but no blue. Same with a lot of ancient writings. Did people not see blue, or did they have no reason to give it a name, or what? One theory holds that we tend not to notice a color (in the sense of giving it a name) until we can make it artificially, and blue is one of the hardest (and last) pigments to make. Here’s a link to the segment, if anybody’s interested:
   http://www.radiolab.org/2012/may/21/sky-isnt-blue/
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   Happy, happy, happy!!! said, 11 months ago

   …i know blue.
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   capndunzzl said, 11 months ago

   …must be a U K Wildcats fan.
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   Comic Minister said, 11 months ago

   Until now.
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    John W Kennedy said, 11 months ago

    It has been proven that it is not a question of /seeing/. There are still primitive tribes with only a few color words, but tests show that they can tell the difference. Even today, you can’t take it for granted that colors are always the same. For example, there was no word for “orange” in English until just a few centuries ago, and most languages don’t have a word for “pink”. On the other hand, Russian and Italian have words for “sky blue”, and, in the Welsh language, the lines between brown, green, and blue are different, so that, in Welsh, grass is "blue"—although this is changing now, due to influence from English.

    Some years ago, it was demonstrated that languages seem to pick up color words in a particular order, starting with “red”. See “Color Words” in Wikipedia.
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    Elderflower said, 11 months ago

    Wow! What fascinating comments today. So much about colour we take for granted.
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    BYackley said, 11 months ago

    @Nabuquduriuzhur

    Exodus is part of the Torah, which dates all the way back to about 600 BC. Homer lived around roughly 800 BC.
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    Jeffrey Hope said, 11 months ago

    I think someone’s made the comment before that Marigold is a lot like Llewellyn.
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    Dana Simpson said, 11 months ago

    @Jeffrey Hope

    I can see the comparison. I suppose, since I’m the same person and I still have the same sensibilities, certain ideas and character traits are bound to show themselves across my whole, you know, oeuvre.

    Yes I said “oeuvre.”
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    AStarofDestiny said, 11 months ago

    @Nabuquduriuzhur

    Ah, yes. Nothing earlier than the very beginning!
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