Bears and why they mostly are called otherwise

Stanley Friesen sarima at friesen.net
Tue Mar 7 03:34:28 UTC 2000


At 08:11 PM 3/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
>-- ah, no word for the color "brown".  Brown things didn't exist then,
>perhaps?

Many languages, even today, have no word for brown.  This is what allowed
Berlin and Kay to develop their color hierarchy.

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