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Old 01-16-2010, 06:48 AM
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Default According to the perceptual psychologists--

--there really is no such thing as "color" anyway, just different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation that we interpret as different colors. but since this interpretation is perceptual, it's certainly prone to individual differences, so I suspect that we don't all see the same colors, even if we do not have hereditary color blindness.

Cross-culturally there seems to be some difference too--New Guinea tribespeople have a lot of distinctions for what for most of us in the West would be closely related greens--they insist these are completely different colors.

As for me, I think any color name with more than two syllables is not really a color--it's a variation of a basic one or two syllable color created by fashion people, and is indicative of a defective personality.
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