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 (DIR) Post #AYIU97EBEVDAHJbNBI by stancarey@mastodon.ie
       2023-07-31T18:08:25Z
       
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       An old folk belief in Ireland held that there are 12 different winds and each has its own colourAlso (from a different source) pigs can see the windhttps://archive.org/details/smallersocialhis00joycuoft/page/528/mode/2up#folklore #IrishFolklore #wind #nature #Ireland #mastodaoine #pigs
       
 (DIR) Post #AYIU97xYVnVWY2pbuK by clickhere@mastodon.ie
       2023-08-01T08:48:18Z
       
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       @stancarey Wow. And the colours listed there remind me of the Himba of Namibia, who don't see the sky as blue, likely due to their language (as opposed to perception of colour).#Language #Colour #Perception #Namibia #Ireland  #MastoDaoine
       
 (DIR) Post #AYIU98iLhowCtAiyqO by stancarey@mastodon.ie
       2023-08-01T09:25:58Z
       
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       @clickhere Yes, that's a linguistic rather than a perceptual thing. Blue is one of the later colour terms to join the basic sequence in a given vocabulary
       
 (DIR) Post #AYIU99TUsWeTFOmdKi by clickhere@mastodon.ie
       2023-08-01T09:46:08Z
       
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       @stancarey That's amazing, thank you!
       
 (DIR) Post #AYIU9A9gLgObMEWK5Q by stancarey@mastodon.ie
       2023-08-01T09:55:44Z
       
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       @clickhere Guy Deutscher, whose book on linguistic relativity looks in depth at colour words, tried a little experiment on his daughter to see if she would identify the sky as blue without being prompted to: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/the-linguistics-of-colour-names/#comment-142152
       
 (DIR) Post #AYIU9AxJNA5vq9jxRY by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-08-01T19:56:39Z
       
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       @stancarey Fascinating!