Color, Linguistic Relativity, And Other Trippy Stuff By Harriet Staff, poetryfoundation.org Was Basho’s green wil­low the same color as Dylan Thomas’s green grass? Maybe not. Any­one who has heard the old—and false—claim that Eski­mos have myr­i­ad words for “snow” has thought about how lan­guage influ­ences our per­cep­tion of color. A…

Color, Linguistic Relativity, And Other Trippy Stuff
By Harriet Staff, poetryfoundation.org

Was Basho’s green wil­low the same color as Dylan Thomas’s green grass? Maybe not. Any­one who has heard the old—and false—claim that Eski­mos have myr­i­ad words for “snow” has thought about how lan­guage influ­ences our per­cep­tion of color. A…

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