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From: Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>
Subject: [lojban] Re: minimum concepts
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> >> 35 seems a bit stingy. At least 3 of those are needed for a triple of
> >> primary colors, 
> > 
> > maybe not if you say something like "grass-color" (green), "sky-color"
> > (blue), "snow-color" (white), "blood-color" (red), etc.  i think "color"
> > would be a necessary concept, but not the individual colors themselves.
> > 
> > stevo

aUI, The Language of Space, uses 31 "elements of meaning", but apparently
"color" is not one of them. Probably it would be formed as some compound 
with "light".

http://home.pacifier.com/~patten/#The Symbols and Sounds of the Language of
Space

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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