What is language actually good for?
Word of Mouth
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Is There a Difference Between Color and Language?
Many languages have only a handful of words for talking about color differences. And everyday language for color is just a sort of a tiny fragment of what we actually can perceive. So when you look at how people use those terms they 're simply not, they cannot be using them to convey detailed distinctions in color. What we're really doing is using the language, using the words, for purposes that are just good enough.
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