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12-16-2019, 09:10 PM | #16 | |
Read? I only know how to write.
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Could they see blue (as in sky) but not have a word for it? That would be completely different from not seeing blue. |
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12-16-2019, 10:43 PM | #17 |
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Hard to believe they would see something as common as a blue sky and not have a word for it.
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12-17-2019, 07:26 AM | #18 |
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Yes, this was the conclusion of the book. When initially asked, people with no word for blue said the sky had no color. But when asked to compare it to a red swatch and a blue swatch, they said the sky matched closer to the blue one--it had just never occurred to them before. It's a question of "see" vs. "notice," and the power that not noticing something has on our brain, which is evolved to prune information that we don't deem to be relevant.
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12-17-2019, 10:21 AM | #19 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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Probably similar to the concept of zero. People knew when they had no goats before zero was invented; they just thought that counting only applied when you actually had some.
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12-17-2019, 05:26 PM | #20 |
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12-20-2019, 12:36 PM | #21 |
To shreds, you say?
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You can blow your nose, and you can blow your boss, but you can't blow your boss's nose.
So I've been told.
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12-25-2019, 10:50 PM | #23 |
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Foul, Red Card.
Using a word to one ever heard or knows how to pronounce makes piss poor poetry.
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12-28-2019, 12:00 PM | #24 |
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12-28-2019, 12:00 PM | #25 |
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So, green or yellow? sorry/not sorry to hurt your eyes today
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12-28-2019, 12:38 PM | #26 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
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12-28-2019, 01:40 PM | #27 |
To shreds, you say?
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12-28-2019, 01:52 PM | #28 |
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Don't ever ever tell me where this store is because in order to spend money I'd have to go to it then grunt and point.
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12-28-2019, 03:06 PM | #30 |
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I have a puzzle app on my phone called "I Love Hue" which is the same idea but with larger grids and increasing levels of difficulty (more shades between the locked-in hues)... it's very soothing to play.
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