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the ancient Greeks had no word for blue,
In fact the only ancient culture to develop a word for blue was the Egyptians.

How about THAT?
(, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:44, archived)
fancy that

(, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:48, archived)
the reason the egyptians had a specific work for blue was because they had blue dye
everyone else described blue things as variants of green
(, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:58, archived)
like those South American tribes who count "one, two, many..."

(, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:05, archived)
yes I do

(, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:30, archived)
What about the abos? They had words for everything

(, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:51, archived)
impossible to say as they never wrote anything down

(, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:59, archived)
Lazy fuckers

(, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:09, archived)
too busy getting pissed

(, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:24, archived)
Vietnamese still uses the same word for both blue and green - xanh
Although they do distinguish by saying 'xanh like the sky' or 'xanh like the trees'.
(, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 10:06, archived)
Most things are turquoise-ish, then

(, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 10:26, archived)
Weirdly the word for turquoise in Vietnamese, ngแปc lam, traslates as "dark blue gemstone"
So they clearly have no fucking idea
(, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 11:49, archived)