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The Color Green

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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Is Sheen the Color of Tiger's Blood?

In pushto, which is a language that's common in northern iran, afghanistan, pakistan, it's sort of a nature color. They have the word sheen, which can mean both blue and green. Here in the vnemes language, there's a word zan that gets further modified to be green or blue. It just turns out that world languages mentally categorized colors all sorts of different ways. And some of these languages are in that situation where they have one word that can be either, and then separate words for eachit's al just very different than english.

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