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I have an ongoing argument with my wife about the color blue. She wants
comecall cyan blue.
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I guess it's like a foreign language. In Paris, I don't use German
color-names. In a clothing store, I don't use print-shop color names.
I suppose a latter-day Prof. Henry Higgins could tell what culture you
from by listening to the color-names you use.
Apparently, it *is* a foriegn language. I thought I would mention that
according to the etymology listed in my dictionary for the entry on
"cyan", it seems that the word comes from the Greek "kyanos"
(kappa|upsilon|nu|omicron|sigma) whose meaning is/was 'dark blue'.
Apparently, over the millenia, maybe dark blue has evolved into a sort of
green-tinged blue? It seems that properly defining this color is Greek
to me.
David Bowman
David_Bowman@georgetowncollege.edu