The World Has Millions of Colors. Why Do We Only Name a Few?

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The World Has Millions of Colors. Why Do We Only Name a Few?

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Linguistics@mander.xyz · 7 months ago

Cognitive scientists suggest that we name the colors of things we want to talk about

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