alt Hacker NewsColours are fun in many languages.
For instance, Japanese and Vietnamese do not differentiate between blue and green and require context specific clarification, e.g «traffic light blue-green».
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nephihaha • today at 12:29 PM
Celtic languages, and I believe Mayan, had a similar thing going on with blue and green. A lot of languages never distinguished orange from yellow really either.
Japanese has a word for green now 緑 (midori). Traffic lights use the word for blue for historical reasons