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Re:The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (2015) by ineedasername on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @11:18AM (#19555033)
I'm surprised this doesn't mention the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and the work done by Paul Kay & Willett Kemptom to test this with color labels. Basically it found that the presence of labels on colors influenced the decisions speakers of different languages, with different lexical entries for colors, made when categorizing colors in the presence of labels. However, absent labels, the decisions made became more "absolute" with respect to the color spectrum and less subjective, and different language speakers' decisions began to match each other. [0]

[0] http://www.blutner.de/color/Sapir-Whorf.pdf

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