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posted by [identity profile] lilkender.livejournal.com at 12:14pm on 2004-03-06
an obscure language, spoken only by a couple thousand people worldwide

I've studied a few unused languages already. And Swedish, which is of limited usefulness since AFAIK most modern Swedes learn English.

And with colour taxonomy you would get into a LOT of arguments with people who wouldn't believe you.
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posted by [identity profile] thette.livejournal.com at 12:44pm on 2004-03-06
Häftigt!

Jag blir lika förvånad varje gång...
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posted by [identity profile] lilkender.livejournal.com at 05:23pm on 2004-03-06
Jag studerart Svenska på universitetet. Och jag är inte Svensk.

I don't remember much more than that, but it was easy since I'm good with languages. I needed a few more credits.

Then I got to mess with my Swedish friends online.
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posted by [identity profile] thette.livejournal.com at 12:33am on 2004-03-07
That's always fun...
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posted by [identity profile] lilkender.livejournal.com at 05:58pm on 2004-03-06
Oh, I didn't mean to say that Swedish was that obscure...

I've also studied Old Irish, Old English and Old Norse.
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posted by [identity profile] thette.livejournal.com at 12:33am on 2004-03-07
In the great scheme of things, Swedish is obscure.
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posted by [identity profile] syntonic-comma.livejournal.com at 03:06pm on 2004-03-06
I've come to the conclusion that people simply don't all perceive colors the same way (ignoring the factor of color-blindness). My wife and I have disagreements about whether two objects are the same or different colors. And given that people don't all see the same thing in the first place, it's no wonder there's confusion about exactly what to name things. 8-(
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posted by [identity profile] lilkender.livejournal.com at 05:09pm on 2004-03-06
Definitely!!

Also things can look very different depending on the light source... can look the same in sunlight and different in fluorescent light, etc.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 03:54am on 2004-03-12
I've been bitten by that a bunch of times.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 04:01am on 2004-03-12
Part of that might be that some people have a structural difference in the retina so that they have four colours of cone cells instead of three (I don't remember whether this is a strictly sex-linked trait, or merely more common in women than in men).
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