Micki
January 9, 2026, 6:48pm
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Great video thanks for sharing. He had the same first question as me - what about yellow??!! Nice to have some Dragon Quest to go with our Dragon Ball.
Phryne
January 10, 2026, 12:11pm
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There’s a whole linguistics debate surrounding this, because languages gradually incorporating an increasing number of separate colour terms is a super common thing.
In the classic study of Brent Berlin and Paul Kay (1969), Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution, the researchers argued that the differences in number of basic color terms in languages follow a repeatable pattern. Color terms can be organized into a coherent hierarchy and there are a limited number of universal basic color terms which begin to be used by individual cultures in a relatively fixed order. This order is defined in stages I to VII. Berlin and Kay originally based thei Be...
The concept of linguistic relativity concerns the relationship between language and thought, specifically whether language influences thought, and, if so, how. This question has led to research in multiple disciplines—including anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, and philosophy. Among the most debated theories in this area of work is the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. This theory states that the language a person speaks will affect the way that this person thinks. The theory varies between
Ahhhhh, seeing that stinger is causing flashbacks from my childhood haha
Micki:
Was not expecting that definition!!!
Same! I guess there are words for everything lol
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Phryne
January 10, 2026, 12:12pm
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Start date: 10 JanPages: 95-112
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