Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Robert Meier wrote: >>> Linguists have found that different language groups divide the visible spectrum up in different ways and have names for different colors within the continuum of the spectrum, so that, for example, some cultures have only two words for the range from yellow through green to blue, omitting our word green. When asked what they call what we see as green, they answer either yellow or blue, depending on where the shade of green falls. They don't "see" green, only yellow and blue. So does green exist for them? No, it doesn't: what they see is either yellow or blue. <<< The portion of the electromagnetic spectrum we know as 'green' exists whether we have a word for it or not. Doug Herr Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com