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AO may not work for you, but OP's link to rd.com doesn't work for me - I'm getting some difficult captchas from cloudflare that don't let me visit that site.
Are you on a VPN or Tor by chance?
- Using iOS with Apple's Remote Attestation disabled (quite unusual)
- Roaming from abroad (so I suspect I share exit IP with all other people on my network coming from abroad)
They speak of this as if it was a Japan-only thing. The blue-green distinction is a late feature of most languages. Even Greek and Latin did not have as clear a distinction as we have today.
How do you come, that they had no distinction between blue and green? The Greek had no word for blue, which is the reason Homer described the sky with different words. But I never heard that the sky was green-isch. While on the other side the Greek had more similarities between green and yellow.
The Romans did have a word for blue, but it only applied to the sky.
Color blindness compatible design is, IMO, a very neglected part of the equality debate, in many other fields. This disability has a very skewed gender ratio due to how it works genetically.
Traffic lights are still fine for colour-blind people aren't they? The order of the lights doesn't change.
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I'm not doubting that multiple languages have that aspect to it, but as far as I know that does not result in blue traffic lights. I have not heard of an instance of a blue traffic light in China to go with your Chinese example.
Because they use 绿, not 青 so it would not result in blue lights But in Korea they have the same confusion: https://www.dreamstime.com/traffic-lights-road-blue-speed-li...
Not a linguist. I feel like this is just an issue of imperfect correspondence between the word "blue" in English and "ao" in Japanese. The article explains the historical reason why ao encompasses both blue and green, so I think the concept of semantic field comes into play here. As an analogy, a MacBook is a type of laptop, and laptops, desktops and tablets are all IT devices (for lack of a better word). Apple might…
> Now, midori (green) is a type of ao ("grue"), and.. It isn't. TFA is vague on this, but in modern usage "ao" just means blue. There are a bunch of set phrases where it refers to various other cool colors, but to a modern listener "ao" on its own isn't a category including all those colors, it just means blue.
They speak of this as if it was a Japan-only thing. The blue-green distinction is a late feature of most languages. Even Greek and Latin did not have as clear a distinction as we have today.
All words are descriptions for a continuous range of colours. Oa apparently just covers a particularly huge range. But you could equally say "ha those stupid English people only have one word for lilac and purple. Idiots!"
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Traffic lights are still fine for colour-blind people aren't they? The order of the lights doesn't change.
> The order of the lights doesn't change. For 3 lights streetlights no. For 2 lights streetlights it depends. They can be (in DE) either red and yellow or yellow or green.
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Are you on a VPN or Tor by chance?
No, but: - Using iOS with Apple's Remote Attestation disabled (quite unusual) - Roaming from abroad (so I suspect I share exit IP with all other people on my network coming from abroad)
Color blindness compatible design is, IMO, a very neglected part of the equality debate, in many other fields. This disability has a very skewed gender ratio due to how it works genetically.
I learned this lesson in my first ever public lecture. Approximately 10% of my audience had some form of colour blindness, rendering the majority of my figures incapable of communicating their intent. Since then I have rendered all figures for public consumption in black and white, and lines instead of surfaces where possible.
I just turn that on, open the camera and look at my color pallete through the camera.