Why The Ancient Greeks Couldn't See Blue
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cyan always looked like a regular blue until i learned the word, now it sticks out, now i know why.
Im from greece
I think none of them used the word blue because they didn't speak English. They had their own languages
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Ancient Minoans also had blue colours in their buildings
It is like GeorgeNotFound who learned the colors new after seeing the word with colorblind glasses
did anyone notice the different green? That that people of namibia could?
This explains why I see teal as just green
so basically you just described binary sec and gender. FINALLY. thank you ;)
The Word *"Blue"* Existed In Hinduism For Many Thousands Of Years!
My heads spinning
It is noteworthy that in the Hebrew Bible there is mention of blue, in the passage that mentions the tabernacle and the tzitzit (ritual fringes)
At first I was like "What is your problem with my country " after a few minutes I just loved the video so I did subscribe.😂
This reminds me of that study of the people with lots of words for scents. They found that these people had a much better sense of smell than native English speakers, since the English language only has a few exclusively scent associated adjectives.
Wait- what about the blue colour at knossos?
Ποιος πιστεύει πραγματικά πως οι αρχαίοι Έλληνες δεν έβλεπαν το χρώμα μπλε, λες και ήταν κάτι εξωγήινοι η κάτι τέτοιο. Είναι τόσο δύσκολο να σκεφτείς ότι απλά οι αρχαίοι δεν είχαν την ίδια ονομασία όπως εμείς σημερα; Σοβαρά τώρα "Το μπλε δεν υπήρχε" Κάνε και καμία έρευνα αυτό κάνουν οι επιστήμονες...😒
Γεια σε ολους , ειμαι ελληνας I'm greek lol
Me a Greek can say that I see blue
I am from Greece and you are very right in Odyssey (which we do in school) not even once the color blue is mentioned
So thats why men see only 3 colors
Black and White are all I see, in my infancy, Red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me, helps me see...
I'm blue, da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa
The word-image reinforcement feedback loop described in this video sounds like a new discovery, but it's probably safe to just call it 'learning'. It's likely that, after a short training session, any normal non-colourblind human can learn to make these colour distinctions just as quickly as speakers of these langauges, and non-colourblind visual artists of any linguistic background probably outperform non-artist speakers of all languages - they have more exposure to different shades of colours than most other people. Another important point is that languages without unique words (lexemes) for specific colours can always just use adjectival forms, compound words, or phrases to describe those colours, which is very common in the world's languages. For example, blue could be 'watery, water-like' (e.g. Persian: ab-i), 'sky green' (e.g. Zulu: okuluhlaza okwesibhakabhaka), 'real blue-green' (e.g. Lakota: tȟo-ȟča), 'oceanic, ocean-like' (e.g. Maori: ao-moana), 'dark' (e.g. Hawaiian: uli, when used to refer to the colour of the ocean), etc. These compounds and substitutions suggest that speakers of other languages are equally good at making these colour distinctions perceptually, and so a great deal more research is required to confirm that there are in fact differences between speakers of different languages.
Blue is mentioned in the Hebrew bible "techelet" which refers to a light blue
I call bullshit.
Τι λεει ρε ο μαλακας
Ότι οι αρχαίοι Έλληνες υπέστη κάποια σοβαρή μετάλλαξη και δεν μπορούσαν να δουν το μπλε..🤣
The Israelites had a word for blue back when they wrote the old testament and that predates the Greeks. -peace
Actually, there are more colors than these mentioned... 😂 From there I wanna got to the fact that it wasn't until the 18th century that humans (westeners at least) learned to tell purple apart from brown - before, they were both brown.
* for those who speak GREEK: έχει κάνει και η μηχανή του χρόνου κάτι παρόμοιο αξίζει να το δείτε νομίζω είναι πιο κατατοπιστικό:)
Sources :) ?
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The hebrew bible says "תכלת". Which means sky blue or blue violet
In my language Blue and Green share the same word, which I still find it confusing, I end up using English words ,makes it much easier
nice
Yeah no, you're wrong dude. Just because the color wasn't mentioned, that doesnt mean that they couldn't see it, in fact that would mean any other color they didn't mention they couldn't see either, which doesn't make sense. Thats an extremely faulty test of evidence. In fact, there are several Greek words that literally mean blue, so yes, they could see blue. Idiots these days.
Maybe they didn't need to include blue cause everyone can see it everywhere
Sick!!!
“The damn pen is blue....!”
In other words only the name blue changes, they did see blue, but they didn't use the word blue, this video could have been 20 seconds long.
Purple is in the Bible. Purple was only worn by the very most wealthy at that time because of the outrageous number of snails needed to make that dye needed for that colour of garment.
I'm spanish, pink is called Color de Rosa (Rose Color aka Red)
At least it's not yellow
Can you review theses Smart Phones? Smart Phone LG Stylo 6 (2020) & Smart Phone Samsung Galaxy S8+ (2017) What are other phone that you recommend? "Like these popular phones for the world to see".
It's a cultural thing: some cultures only have two colors, light and dark. English has more words for different colors than any other known language. But that doesn't mean that English speakers can see more colors than speakers of other languages. It is semantic or linguistic, that's all.
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That was actually mind blowing, I thought they just didn't see it because of genes, because I KEPT FORGETTING TO GOOGLE IT!!
I love how so many commenters just shut this whole video down.
in English there is only blue, in Italian there is blue, azzurro and celeste.
More Sapir-whorf videos please hahahahha
sorry what?
Red. In old Slavic cultures, color red was associated with beauty. Which made it to modern language Krasny(red)-Krasiviy(beautiful), but in old times Karasniy/aya was the word for beauty. Like the sun. One of the theories is that it was associated with the sun, other theories draw connection to red dye (which was rare to find and expensive), red boots were every girl's dream.
In the end boys, the sky is blue
Sorry, the Bible mentions God's throne as being a sapphire hue. Most sapphires are blue and the two names for the color are considered kin. Pink isn't a shade. It's a tint, since white is mixed into the color red to produce it. Shades are produced by mixing the color black into a basic color, either by physical manipulation or changes in light.
The Hebrew Bible has numerous references to the color blue. There were numerous parts in the temple that used blue, curtains, doors, decorations like pomegranates, the ephod, loops on the curtains,etc. Start with Exodus 25:4 to Ezekiel 27:7 and you see the examples. The tallis of our corners that men were to wear was to have a thread of blue in it. I use a concordance, Strong's Exhaustive Concordance is the best to me.
yeah it is called the Baader Meinhof phenomenon.
The Bible has the color blue, תכלת. It is mentioned several times.
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Άρα το κυανό και το γαλανό δεν σου λένε τίποτα εσένα?
Λολ
Blue is the gen z of colors
You can get dark pink and pale red, their easily recognisable.
China yus purple
Greek yus blu
Egypten jus blu
Seeings how im a scholar of such things. In the Bible, the word 'blue' occurs fifty times, all of which are in the Old Testament. The Hebrew word translated as this color is tekeleth (Strong's Concordance #H8504), which is a reference to the animal from which the dye is obtained. Its meaning in Scripture is that of representing God (Exodus 24:10, 25:3, 38:18, Numbers 4:6 - 12, 2Chronicles 2:7, Ezekiel 1:26, etc.), royalty (Esther 1:6, Ezekiel 23:6, Jeremiah 10:9), riches (Ezekiel 27:7, 24) or service to God and godly living (Exodus 28:6, 8, 13, 31, Numbers 15:38 - 40, Esther 8:15). Exodus, written about 1468 bc, this is not a well researched video
It seems more like they described black as a very dark shade of blue, no?
I'm blue
Um, blue IS mentioned in the Hebrew bible. The word Techelet (תְּכֵלֶת) is a specific blue shade that comes from a sea snail and is mentioned in the book of Numbers. It's also found in other Hebrew texts like the story of Queen Esther where it's mentioned alongside Argaman (אַרְגָּמָן), which is purple.
Ffffffff u fake
Ancient People : No blu People in 2021 :*queues Eiffel 65 Im blue* and dance
Blue is mentioned in INDIAN EPICS cuz in Mahabharata and Ramayana Rama and Krishna are blue color
Blue dye from shells was one of the few colors that could be controlled in those days. So, I wonder if this blue story is true...
Red Black White are All i see In my infancy
Τι μαλακιες λεει αυτος
Blue is the new black.
Μπλε, να το είπα xddd
If Hebrew didn't have blue, what was תכלת, and how did it differ from ארגמן?
what a clickbait lying title. you offer no proof they couldn't see blue. They saw blue and just considered it a shade of another color because it was uncommon...
Trying to explain the logic sounds so illogical. At no time of a clear DAY do I ever see black when I look skyward. It would be more believable that the sky actually was different due to whatever; lots of volcanic eruptions, massive dust clouds happening more often - whatever. But describing the sky as wine-dark doesn’t even hint at blue. And if all the ancient civilizations did the same thing, why do we think they just didn’t know how to describe what we see?
3,45,9 this is pi followed by
20 19 18 17 16 15 here we start seeing blue??? WHATA FK
Such an underrated color 🔵💠💙📘🇬🇷
Wot no orange??
I assure you, kids ask “why is the sky blue” in Greece 😌😌
Me a Greek person:...
I didn't realize I was color blind until now. Literally.
therefore mozart wasn’t a genius
I've noticed a similar effect, and is part of the reason I became a motorcyclist. After realizing how little my mind recognized motorcycles on the road, I started riding so that I would notice them more.
Your presentation is flawed since the ancient Greeks had two words for different shades of blue: Cyanó and Galanó.
And then the Starbucks White Chick started naming every shade of color
Ancient Indian texts does have reference to the colour blue. Many ancient texts in India describes lord Shiva as "Neelakantha" where "Neela" means blue and "Kantha" means throat. The one who has a blue throat. Many gods and goddesses in India are also depicted and described as Blue in colour (Representing their Blue aura) like Goddess Kali (She is also depicted a Black though), Goddess Tara, Lord Krishna and Lord Rama. All were blue. There are also many descriptions of Blue Lotus in ancient Indian texts.
All I can say is that I think 164K people got trolled. Oh...and the of course the ancient Greeks could see blue.
This isn't true. However, there is are colors that nobody can see.
Homer was blind...
Because God loves the Infantry.
When he said "Himba from Namibia" I felt represented 🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦
Noticing is voluntary
Orange is just a very light brown.
Really good talk, I thought. Fascinating.
I don't know about ancient Greeks but now we are ok
1:53 is this where ‘rainbow order’ came from??