linguistics of color is interesting. classic example is russian having distinct words for light and dark blue as well (golubój/sínij respectively) with no generic “blue”
To consider this from other languages’ points of view, English has distinct words for light red (pink) and not-light-red (red) with no generic word that refers to both colors.
linguistics of color is interesting. classic example is russian having distinct words for light and dark blue as well (golubój/sínij respectively) with no generic “blue”
In english, blue used to be light, and indigo was a different colour. But now blue is dark, and cyan is a different colour
To consider this from other languages’ points of view, English has distinct words for light red (pink) and not-light-red (red) with no generic word that refers to both colors.