Re: [lojban] RE:not only

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/19/2001 5:54:44 PM Central Daylight Time,
lojbab@lojban.org writes:

.  One reason [for adopting the simple predicate form for colors, rather
than the comparative] was a realization from prototype theory that word
meanings
(especially of colors) simply are NOT comparative to a typical in nature,
but rather reflect closeness to an archtypical or prototypical concept of
blue.  Thus "blue" is "less non-blue than any non-blue object, or something
to that effect, though even this formulation may break down at the borders
between colors.

That is, a psychological theory about color recognition won out over a
linguistic theory about how color terms function in language.  That sounds
familiar.  In any case we got rid of the Angstrom unit crew and the fights
between the red-blue-whatevers and the cyan-magenta-whatevers -- and the
color spindleists.  

<Nora also had strong distaste for what is now "na se blanu", the negated
converse, which IIRC JCB attached special meaning to.>
I don't remember that but I do know what JCB could do with odd cases, so I
can imagine that as a powerful motive.