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DavidS - Apr 22, 2008 8:22:01 pm PDT #3098 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The example they give in the article is that Russian has two completely different words for light blue and dark blue. That is, they're not categorized the same which causes some cognitive issues in identifying. Or something.

Anyway, different languages divvy up the spectrum in different ways.

Burrell - Apr 22, 2008 8:27:06 pm PDT #3099 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

And in English we have red and cardinal, but I don't think we consider them two different colors. Without knowing the nuances of Russian it's hard to say.

Oh, and the ancient Greeks with their wine-dark sea supposedly perceived depth of color as more significant than tone, but again, without knowing nuance how does one guess as to perception?

Cass - Apr 22, 2008 8:29:29 pm PDT #3100 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

English, for example, distinguishes blue from green. Most other languages do not make that distinction. Is it possible that only English speakers really see those colors as different?
Blasphemy! If you do not separate your blues and your greens? You get teal! And teal is evil.

DavidS - Apr 22, 2008 8:40:53 pm PDT #3101 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

And teal is evil.

The Florida Marlins wore teal.

They won 2 World Series Championships faster than any other franchise.

Conclusion: Evil wins.

Cass - Apr 22, 2008 8:41:55 pm PDT #3102 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Baseball is evil too?

DavidS - Apr 22, 2008 8:43:44 pm PDT #3103 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Baseball is evil too?

Let's compare the carbon footprint of the World Series vs. the Indy 500 first...

Allyson - Apr 22, 2008 8:49:33 pm PDT #3104 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

woohoo!!! I just finished packing the wreck that was my desk. LaCie, Airport, printer, random stacks of paper and toner, CD-Rs, a million cables...everything but the laptop and router.

Next up: Dishes, then clothes. Then Friday lori comes over with Hank to take my bed to the new place!

Tomorrow my range and refrigerator are going to be delivered, so I'm going to bring all the cleaning supplies, toilet paper and paper towels, and measuring tape for to figure out what size blinds I need and whether I can rube goldberg a solution to getting my AC in the bedroom window.

Gah. I am SO BORING.

DavidS - Apr 22, 2008 8:54:37 pm PDT #3105 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Gah. I am SO BORING.

Wasn't your bathroom collapsing on your head four hours ago?

Cass - Apr 22, 2008 8:57:33 pm PDT #3106 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Let's compare the carbon footprint of the World Series vs. the Indy 500 first...
Oh, my sport of choice is environmentally tragic. With a capital T.

I mean, it uses ethanol but that's not really saying a lot. But it's zoooooooooooomy. And zoomy is good to me. Unless it's a teal car.

Allyson - Apr 22, 2008 9:08:10 pm PDT #3107 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Yes! And someone will "look at it" tomorrow. I'm looking at it right now. Looking at it doesn't seem to fix it.

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