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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
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Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 10:40:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 26 10:40:01 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 07:13:17 EDT
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Reply-To: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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Summary: 

On the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis ...  in Japanese, there is only one
word for both blue and green (or at least was circa 1550 -- I
picked this up doing armor research): *aoi*.

I always wondered: did that mean if you showed a Japanese person a
blue something and a green something, the Japanese person couldn't
tell them apart?  It would certainly be hard to say "point to the
blue one ... point to the green one."

On the other hand, they certainly could perceive the difference
(one would think) because the physical structures are the same.

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			Charlie Martin
			(...mcnc!duke!crm)