And without a word for the colour, there’s evidence that they may not have seen it at all. Until relatively recently in human history, “blue” didn’t exist.Īs the delightful Radiolab episode “Colours” describes, ancient languages didn’t have a word for blue - not Greek, not Chinese, not Japanese, not Hebrew. It’s about the way that humans see the world, and how until we have a way to describe something, even something so fundamental as a colour, we may not even notice that it’s there.
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