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Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by Nition »

WesleyJohnson wrote: post #129

I'm sure this isn't an original thought, but I wonder how others see colors. Irrespective of color blindness, is what I know as red appear as blue to someone else? How would you even know or describe it? "Red, like a strawberry, tomato, or apple." And they say, "Yes, exactly." But what they're truly seeing is what YOU know as blue. They see something different than you do, but to them that color has always been calle…

I vividly remember my friend and I first thinking of this question during a sleepover at around 13 years old, as we stayed awake late talking about what seemed at the time like the deep philosophies of life. This isn't to say that it's a bad question, but more that it's funny how everyone seems to come up with this question independently at some point. I've read many others with the same question since.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by rubslopes »

smokedetector1 wrote: post #2

The other week my wife and I were disagreeing over whether a house was green or blue. I was shocked when every passerby we asked agreed with her that it was green. I was absolutely 100% sure it was blue. Turns out according to this site, my boundary is greener than 95% of the population! Funny to see this proved out here!

90% here, and it makes sense. I'm very picky about saying something is blue!

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by andai »

Pro tip, I had my device's blue light filter enabled.

I want to say that shifted my score a lot. But every time I play I get a pretty different score, even on the same screen calibration. So, uh...

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by dropofwill »

percentcer wrote: post #3

I think the alternative should be "this is not blue". I was served what I would call a "teal" or "turquoise" but the alternative button shows "this is green", which it was not.

In linguistics this sort of thinking comes from 'basic color term' theory, which lays out heuristics for deciding if a word for a color in a given language is 'basic'. 2 things going against these blue-green terms are:

* They refer to specific objects (a duck and a stone), eventually these referents can be transcended though, like with the case of orange. * Their frequency is roughly similar to each other (along with cyan, aqua, etc.), so there's no one term for this range (e.g. there's no doubt in a corpus of English that red is the basic color term for its spectrum).

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by javawizard »

ZeWaka wrote: post #165
armada651 wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many languages considered green and blue so closely related that they grouped them together under a single term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

grue

It's better than bleen I suppose.

Speaking of, I'd be curious about a similar experiment but one that compares how grotesque, for lack of a better word, certain words sound. The word bleen makes me uncomfortable, I think because my brain automatically goes to spleen; grue isn't my favorite either but I prefer it to bleen.

I'm curious how universal that is though. Do others have similarly aligned preferences for one word over the other, or are our feelings about them more evenly spread?

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by sudobash1 »

As other commenters here have noted, I found this interesting but a little frustrating. The second color it asks about is clearly cyan (or turquoise). For me, this is like showing an orange screen and asking if it is red or yellow.

I understand that across cultures "orange" does not exist as a distinctly named color (it only got its name in most European languages around the 1500s), but as someone who was trained since preschool that orange is a distinct color, it would feel wrong to "round" it to red or yellow.

I haven't had green-cyan-blue drilled into me the same way as red-orange-yellow. So sometimes I do "round" it. I might note how "green" some cyan river water is, or call something cyan "blue" when it is next to something kelly green. But when I just have a screenfull of pure cyan light, I don't know what else to call it.

As a side note, I do wonder how differently a child would perceive color if they were taught more than 7 colors in preschool.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by Rapzid »

TZubiri wrote: post #138
Rapzid wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Colors are a fuzzy continuum Denver is teal, the USA blue-green. Canada is Blue, and Mexico is green. Their analogy is pretty on point.

You are confusing geographical position with countries. Countries are not a continuum, they start and end at some specific line defined by constitutions, mutually agreed by neighbours (or disputed through war and diplomacy) Colours have no such incentive for strict unified definitions, so there is no point at which blue ends.

I'm not confusing anything. I am 1000% unconfused and entirely on the same wavelength as OP.

You're inability to wrap your head around the analogy is tantamount to.. Not being able to comprehend blue-green.

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