English perception of color vs. Chinese perception of color

Posted by davidbarker on Monday November 24, 2014 @09:41AM
from the muyueh.com dept.

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Re:English perception of color vs. Chinese perception of color by wodenokoto on Monday November 24, 2014 @09:15PM (#8655968)

I failed to understand his conclusion, at all. What is he trying to say? Something about how English and Chinese perceive colors differently? Or how they favor colors differently?

It seems like a lot of the Wikipedia colors are commercial names or technical names and therefore don't really represent the understanding of color that normal people have when they view or talk about color.

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Re:English perception of color vs. Chinese perception of color by droidist2 on Monday November 24, 2014 @09:00PM (#8655928)

Very interesting. I think 青 is my favorite color!

http://google.com/search?q=%E9%9D%92&tbm=isch&tbs=isz:l

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Re:English perception of color vs. Chinese perception of color by BetaCygni on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @12:45PM (#8658699)

Let me translate that for you ;)

https://www.google.com/search?q=electric+blue&tbm=isch

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Re:English perception of color vs. Chinese perception of color by droidist2 on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @12:01PM (#8663248)

Beautiful!

http://www.kittywigs.com/img/blue1.jpg

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Re:English perception of color vs. Chinese perception of color by megaman22 on Monday November 24, 2014 @01:09PM (#8653686)

Busted link?

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Re:English perception of color vs. Chinese perception of color by muyueh on Monday November 24, 2014 @06:26PM (#8655328)

sorry, I am getting x1000 traffic, and I am still working on it. I made a video version of the interactive piece: http://youtu.be/IJZX5XaK0Xc

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