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Dinos in heaven, Jesus’ DNA, lying angels, rebooted universe, marrying aliens? & More Weird Questions

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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What Is the Number of Color Terms in a Language?

All languages have at least two primary color terms. If they have only two, they are always black and white. There's this definite sequence in human consciousness that governs the order in which languages have color terms. purple doesn't show up until you've hit like, the seventh color term or more.

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