General Knowledgespeaking topic
Some languages use one word for both 'blue' and 'green'; in Japanese, the 'green' of a traffic light is still called 'ao' (blue), so the lights are made to lean bluish. Language can bend even the color our eyes see. Do words describe reality, or shape it?
— linguistics, the blue-green (grue) distinction and Japanese ao
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