Bears and why they mostly are called otherwise

[Eduard Selleslagh]

At 09:48 13/03/00 -0700, you wrote:

>[I (John McLaughlin) wrote]

>>> There are many, many languages in the world that have no basic word for
>>> 'brown', and, as Berlin and Kay have demonstrated, 'brown' is a late
>>> term to develop in color vocabulary.

>[Joat Simeon wrote]

>> -- ah, my fault.  I should have been clearer.  I think it's entirely
>> academic and pointless to distinguish between "primary" and other color
>> terms.

>Berlin and Kay have a very precise meaning for "basic" (not "primary", which
>is a term of optics representing Red, Yellow, and Blue only, as opposed to
>"secondary", which is a term for Orange, Green, and Purple).

[Ed]
I suppose you mean magenta, yellow and cyan, the primary colores if you
consider subtractive color mixing, like in printing (one layer over another
on white paper, masking part of the spectrum). Together they give black.
Otherwise, the primary colors (for additive mixing, like TV, i.e. adding
light from three sources) are red, green, blue. Together they give white.

Just to keep things clear.

Ed. Selleslagh

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