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Mon 17 Oct, 2005 01:02 am
Down the the Pub the other day,a mate asked me why the sky was BLUE.This lead onto why the leaves on the trees are GREEN and why s**t is BROWN.
What we all want to know is who decided to name the colours.Why is red red,why is black black?????
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Because they have to be called something.Its all associative.
An orange isnt orange, the colour is added.
And if rin tin tin and lassie had a fight who would win?
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barrythemod wrote:
What we all want to know is who decided to name the colours.Why is red red,why is black black?????
Hmm, why weren't you in a mine but in a pub?
I should think that the name for colours were 'invented' like any other words in languages.
Words are just sounds, we recognise a sound and relate it to something.
You can try
http://www.etymonline.com/
That won't explain everything, but it's a start.
This is going nowhere.I know WHY the sky is blue,but WHO named,called it blue
One or two of the first men (since it's a colour, most probably: first women) who could articulate.
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