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1. Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jun-2018 00:10:51 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

   • deshipu

   @deshipu Do you know the klein blue?
   There's a crazy thing with people in some tribes... they where unable to recognize blue color but they were able to recognize a lot of different greens. They didn't have a word to refer to blue and that's why they didn't know it.

   It's so fucking crazy.

   I watched a documentary about that shit but I don't remember where and I'd like to watch it again because I forgot almost everything about it.

   • deshipu@mastodon.technology's status on Sunday, 10-Jun-2018 00:27:07 CEST deshipu

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     @ekaitz_zarraga There is a book "Through the Language Looking Mirror" that describes this and other language-related things. There are languages that only have absolute directions. There are languages that use different tenses depending where you obtained the information (hearsay, seconnd-hand or eyewitness). There are languages that require you to know the gender of the persdon you speak of, etc. -- it all affects thinking.

     Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 repeated this.