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Re:What happens when a language has no numbers? by lcedp on Saturday October 19, 2013 @09:17AM (#6576280)
Not only Russians. I believe it's the other way around - in English you have the same name "blue" for two colors that exist in quite few languages.

синий: http://yandex.ua/yandsearch?text=%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0...

голубой: http://yandex.ua/yandsearch?text=%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83%D0...

It was a bit of mind-blowing to learn that English world for #0000ff is "blue" and then suddenly "The sky is blue" (what?! no it isn't #0000ff)

The same thing goes for redheads - what? but this is not red!

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