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The Color Green

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The Weed Culture Is Just Hanging On

Linguist Brent berlin and paul k initially thought they had found an order of words for colors. But it turns out the upshot is every language and culture varies. And if 65 only has one hlo, no adia a. If there was just two words for colors, it would be for black and white. The human eye can see millions of separate, distinct colors, but to conceptualize them, we need words.

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