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Cake day: July 16th, 2023
  • Sony@lemmy.worldOPMtoJingszo !@lemmy.world•How do Namibian Himbas see colour?
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    9 months ago

    Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (1969; ISBN 1-57586-162-3) is a book by Brent Berlin and Paul Kay. Berlin and Kay’s work proposed that the basic color terms in a culture, such as black, brown, or red, are predictable by the number of color terms the culture has.

    Berlin and Kay posit seven levels in which cultures fall, with Stage I languages having only the colors black (dark–cool) and white (light–warm). Languages in Stage VII have eight or more basic color terms. This includes English, which has eleven basic color terms. The authors theorize that as languages evolve, they acquire new basic color terms in a strict chronological sequence; if a basic color term is found in a language, then the colors of all earlier stages should also be present. The sequence is as follows:

    Stage I: Dark-cool and light-warm (this covers a larger set of colors than just English “black” and “white”.)

    Stage II: Red

    Stage III: Either green or yellow

    Stage IV: Both green and yellow

    Stage V: Blue

    Stage VI: Brown

    Stage VII: Purple, pink, orange, or gray

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms

  • Sony@lemmy.worldOPMtoJingszo !@lemmy.world•For the first time, astronomers witness the dawn of a new solar system
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    10 months ago

    I can not remember very many words containing a Z in their spelling…But seemingly those words spelled with an S are now the alternative!

    eg: cognisant …Alternative spelling of cognizant.

    I suppose it is down to the manufacturers of this educative literature to provide the meaning, whether these educators be artificial, extraterrestrial , subterranean, intelligent or otherwise…Just ask Google 👽

    I hope you have a most excellent day… This is if 24 hours is still called a day? 😁😁

  • Sony@lemmy.worldOPMtoJingszo !@lemmy.world•Did the Pentagon spread false UFO stories? We’re skeptical.
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    11 months ago

    The most logical way to remain unidentified I would say.

    A goodly percentage of my fellow earthlings carry no ID either, only computer literate juveniles have appropriate identification in this part of the cosmos, and only when they are in search of an alcoholic beverage. The thing is, their identification is guaranteed to be bogus, your average Mr Adam Adamant over here could well be from Jupiter!

    It is best to remain unidentifiable here on planet earth, as I suppose is the case in many parts of the universe…

    You have a most excellent day now, on whatever planet you inhabit 😄😁

  • Sony@lemmy.worldOPMtoJingszo !@lemmy.world•Leaked footage of ‘pyramid-shaped’ UFOs is real, Pentagon says - National | Globalnews.ca
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    11 months ago

    The cosmic vibrations oozing from the world wide web of ectoplasm are hinting that perhaps you may just not be overly enthused by the calibre of mystical and mysterious articles of unknown origin being posted to this community …mmmm?

    OK…What about a crop circle then?.. Crop circles are relatively harmless, unless you are a stalk of grain that is, would a report on one of these brighten your day?

    If so…How’s about two crop circles?

    Yip, there have been two new crop circles reported in Wiltshire recently… Are crop circles any better?

    If not, there are rumours that an Abominable Big Foot thingy has been sighted around the Midlands, and don’t forget we always have Nessie, come on who doesn’t like to hear a ripping good yarn about The Beastie? 🙄😁

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