Re: [lojban] skari

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Sunday 06 November 2011 13:48:55 Sebastian Fröjd wrote:
> well, I can't really drop this topic.
> I now agree with you that gismu should be left vague. Anyway, when I first
> came in contact with lojban I thought that it was pretty cool to think
> about the exact meaning of words; to be unambigous, not only grammatical
> but also semantically.
>
> So isn't it possible to construct a color system with lujvos, which has
> exact definitions without being to technical (=using numbers) each time you
> would like to use them? My color definition system would be very
> consistent, and I would like to use it, even if not all lojbanists would.
>
> So my question is: what prefix would I use to distinguish my color
> definitions from the more vague standard?
> my suggestion is {marxu'e} or {na'orxu'e} for red #FF0000. What do you
> think?

There are different kinds of colors: colors of emitted light, colors of 
reflecting surfaces, and idealized color spaces. Among the human population, 
there are at least three alleles of the red-seeing gene (normal, anomalous, 
and blind), at least two of the green-seeing gene (ditto), and at least two 
of the blue. It is thus possible for a woman to have five primary colors. 
(Both red and green are on X, only one of which is expressed per cell.) And 
I, a mutant of the red-seeing gene, sometimes see things I want to 
call "gred" or "grellow". Then there's bicnukni. That's #FF00FF, where the 
first byte is green and the third is ultraviolet. So #FF0000 is OK for 
{ma'orxu'e}, as long as you remember that you're talking about a color space 
and not a pure spectral line or paint.

Pierre
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