ext_26492 ([identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] jay 2008-08-18 10:13 pm (UTC)

(nods) or are they unawares color-shifted, and are actually seeing ultraviolet and calling it purple, with purple called blue, etc.? Without comparing descriptions of a common benchmark (say, light at a given frequency), they'd never know that they were using different words for the same color.

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