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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 biztos »

sudobash1 wrote: post #179

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 sin…

I have no idea when the words entered the languages, but I find it quite interesting that the color Orange in Thai is literally the color of the fruit (สีส้ม) whereas in Hungarian it is the same fruit as a shade of yellow (narancssárga).

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by seszett »

mcalus3 wrote: post #371

In Polish language we commonly call turquoise "lightblue", so instinctively we'll have the boundary not at the middle of the turquoise, but between the turquiose and green, (i got hue 165, 95% of the population). We also call it "sea-color", but sea is also more culturally associated with blue than green.

In French, turquoise is "bleu turquoise", so obviously blue. So I'm not surprised it says "For you, turquoise is blue."

In Dutch it's called "appelblauwzeegroen" (apple-blue sea-green, yes it's weird) so it's not surprising either that my wife sees it as green I guess.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by chossenger »

javawizard wrote: post #178
ZeWaka wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by natebc »

Suppafly wrote: post #268
ecshafer wrote: post #249

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My daughter was watching Blue's Clues. They were doing color combinations (red + blue = purple, yellow + blue = green, etc). They then also did a further step, blue + green = cyan, and did green + yellow = chartreuse. Now maybe its my male engineer brain, but I haven't heard of that color in 36 years, but it does make sense and it is rather distinct.

I only know chartreuse from fishing lures.

Same.

Dad: Hey, what rig did we catch that king on?

Me: Live pogey with a chartreuse minnow.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by orthoxerox »

argee wrote: post #244
red75prime wrote: post #237

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BTW, cyan is very poorly represented by sRGB color space. I was delighted to see the real vibrant cyan of the Mediterranean sea.

You might like this then. [0] [0] https://dynomight.net/colors/#2

It's always great to experience completely new qualia.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by housecarpenter »

Suppafly wrote: post #272
reactordev wrote: post #80

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correctness is not the point. binary choice is the whole point. because my blue may not be your blue...

>correctness is not the point. binary choice is the whole point. because my blue may not be your blue... Realistically there is a broad range that we all can acknowledge is neither, but is instead teal, and forcing a binary choice means people just choose randomly.

I don't think that's necessarily the case. I understand that there's a continuum in reality, but psychologically, I still tend to perceive each shade as discretely either blue or green, especially when the shade is presented in isolation. Words like "teal", "cyan", etc. aren't really part of my normal vocabulary and to the extent that they are, I would think of them as subsets of blue or green, not disjoint sets.

I think the test can be fairly criticised on the basis that it is assuming everyone's psychological colour space has a discrete boundary between blue and green, which clearly isn't the case for some people (like you), but it is for others (like me).

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by jounker »

vigilantpuma wrote: post #323
sudobash1 wrote: post #179

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 sin…

This test is really using how English organizes color. In English, blue and green are basic color terms ([ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms ]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms )). You're right that we would have trouble with an orange screen if we were asked to call it red or yellow, but that's because orange is also a basic color term in English. Other languages draw those boundaries in…

The person you were responding to said that cyan feels like a completely different color to them, neither green nor blue. I had the same reaction when it gave me a color that I immediately identified as teal, and I learned my colors as a monolingual english speaker in Ohio. Therefore the supposition that all English speakers see only blue or green is an oversimplification.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by kasey_junk »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #184
kasey_junk wrote: post #169

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I’m not color blind and see a white barrier between 3 sections(it looks like a 3 piece pie) with lines at the green/blue red/blue and green/yellow boundaries. No idea why

> I'm not color blind Well... uhm, you may want to verify that claim.

My family has a long genetic history of color blindness so I’ve been tested many times. None of those diagnostics has produced a result of color blindness but perhaps there is some form that’s not been categorized yet.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by mathw »

vigilantpuma wrote: post #323
sudobash1 wrote: post #179

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 sin…

This test is really using how English organizes color. In English, blue and green are basic color terms ([ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms ]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms )). You're right that we would have trouble with an orange screen if we were asked to call it red or yellow, but that's because orange is also a basic color term in English. Other languages draw those boundaries in…

And this changes over time, because for me cyan IS a basic colour term and I'm a native English speaker.
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