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by ENGNR 1617 days ago
It’s a majorly weird thing. Knowing of a colour makes it obvious, but not having the concept embedded into your neurons means it isn’t split and out and distinguished when you experience the world. There are some African tribes with a very different knowledge of blue and green to us that makes the contrast very clear

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180419-the-words-that-c...