[lit-ideas] Re: Welsh "Glas" (Was: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:43:30 +0100
Gwyrdd=green, glas=blue, but Welsh is a 'grue' language.
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8548630
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Welsh "Glas" (Was: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Krueger asks John McCreery
> John -- if you didn't have a word for "red" would you still see the colour
> of an apple, a tomato, blood? Or, because you didn't have the word for it,
> would your brain simply stop processing data?
>
This reminds me of Welsh 'glas'
ENGLISH WELSH
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blue -------------------------------
--------------------------------------------- glas
green --------------------------------
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We may assume that an English-speaker and a Welsh-speaker perceive _the same
*thing*, a bluish-greenish sea (like the Atlantic off the coast of Gibraltar).
"Glas", the Welsh-speaker says.
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