watching ads for new phones with AI assistants and thinking if we can pay farmers not to grow things we can pay engineers not to make things
I really liked "The cube is used in games." as one of those components of a definition that provides more questions than answers. Literally true, but practically meaningless unless you already know what a die is.
Anyway, next week we're covering linguistic relativity and the Whorf hypothesis, so I'll get the students to rate the blue/green division and let you know if we find anything interesting.
And I bring it up because the "ao"/"mizu" distinction it has in Figure 1 is seemingly mostly lightness (scroll down a bit, it's the bar graph). So, actually, I guess my intuition was wrong in the preceding message. Whoops! ๐ซฅ
I've had Japanese students who've used Kuriki et al's work on Japanese color terms in their research and generally agreed with the paper's "definitions" of the focal colors; here's a link to that: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
Sorry I forgot to respond! I meant to follow up by looking it up in Berlin & Kay's World Color Survey, then forgot, then realized that the WCS doesn't have that information. :| I *think* it's both lightness and hue, but I don't know for sure.
Thanks for sharing - it was great timing; I was teaching about emoji interpretation in my Language & Computers class today and was able to share it with them as further reading!
Oh boy! We're talking about cross-linguistic (in)consistency in basic color terms (as part of linguistic relativity) in my Language, Mind, & Society class in two weeks -- definitely gonna share this with my students! It's kinda weird that the light vs. dark blue distinction is the one English lacks
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