From owner-conlang@diku.dk Sat Jan 13 09:16:11 1996 Received: from odin.diku.dk (daemon@odin.diku.dk [130.225.96.221]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id JAA05302 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 09:16:10 -0500 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by odin.diku.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA02894 for conlang-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 14:40:48 +0100 Received: from netcom2.netcom.com (brg@netcom2.netcom.com [192.100.81.108]) by odin.diku.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA02882 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 14:40:41 +0100 Received: by netcom2.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id FAA04814; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 05:40:12 -0800 Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 05:40:12 -0800 From: brg@NETCOM.COM (Bruce R. Gilson) Message-Id: <199601131340.FAA04814@netcom2.netcom.com> To: PDoudna@AOL.COM, conlang@diku.dk, hmiller@IO.COM Subject: Re: CONLANG: color words (was: cartography) Sender: owner-conlang@diku.dk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: brg@NETCOM.COM (Bruce R. Gilson) Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 868 hmiller@IO.COM (Herman Miller) wrote: [text deleted] >>When working with colors (and looking for suitable abbreviations), it is >>always slightly annoying that blue, brown, and black all begin with B. It >>would be much neater if each principal color started with a unique letter. >Interesting suggestion. Eklektu "blu" and "brun" both begin with B; perhaps >I should go back to one of the alternatives "sini", "lan", or "glas" for >blue. (I keep a few alternate versions of Eklektu words around just in case.) Since in Welsh, "glas" means both blue and green, why not use it for cyan? At- though "cyan" is not a common word in English, it is important in color theory and a new language ought to have a word for it. Bruce R. Gilson brg@netcom.com