Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Of course it exists. That isn't the question. On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > Robert Meier wrote: > >>>> > Linguists have found that different language groups divide the visible > spectrum up in different ways and have names for different colors within > the continuum of the spectrum, so that, for example, some cultures have > only two words for the range from yellow through green to blue, omitting > our word green. When asked what they call what we see as green, they > answer either yellow or blue, depending on where the shade of green falls. > They don't "see" green, only yellow and blue. So does green exist for > them? No, it doesn't: what they see is either yellow or blue. > <<< > > The portion of the electromagnetic spectrum we know as 'green' exists > whether we have a word for it or not. > > Doug Herr > Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information