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I figure magically propelled vehicles can more or less be assumed to be a thing even down here because I don't recall beasts of burden ever being brought up in context with Jiao's sweet ride.
Might just have forgotten them or be reading too much into it, though.
 
Pipeman said:
I figure magically propelled vehicles can more or less be assumed to be a thing even down here because I don't recall beasts of burden ever being brought up in context with Jiao's sweet ride.
Might just have forgotten them or be reading too much into it, though.
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Meizhen already mentioned boats powered by qi.

It was back during lakegate. Meizhen mentioned never having been on a boat that wasnt powered by qi, LQ made a pun based on her name.



I wish she pun'd more often >_>. LQ's puns are awesome.
 
Yeangst said:
[killjoy] While the 'ancient Greeks couldn't see blue' theory is fun, I believe it's been pretty thoroughly debunked by modern historians.[/killjoy]

I wonder what the not!Greeks are like. Mycenaean/Homeric? Archaic? Classical? Hellenic?
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I believe the modern interpretation is that colors are arbitrarily divided by your culture and words for a color usually don't develop until someone invents a dye for that color resulting in a need to talk about it specifically. This typically fits the linguistic development of words for different colors across time in different civilizations. Blue in most cases is the last color to develop as it is hard to make a dye for. The Egyptians were an exception for both the word and the dye appeared early.

In a more modern example. The color orange for example didn't exist until people needed a word for the color the fruit was. The color is named after the fruit not the other way around.

Also artist have much more words for colors than others due to them working with colors in more detail.
 
Alphaleph said:
No wonder some of the color names can get pretentious.
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Any profession developed it's own special terminology for talking about things that are relevant to it in more detail and quicker. In the case of artists that means being able to very specifically identify and communicate color to an immense level of detail. To us being able to use a dozen words for different kinds of red is really pretentious but to them that level of detail is really important for their job and once you learn to see that kind of thing you can't stop.

A lot of things we view as objective are really something we learned to think of that way when we were young, and our brains built circuitry around that view.
 
cyberswordsmen said:
Any profession developed it's own special terminology for talking about things that are relevant to it in more detail and quicker. In the case of artists that means being able to very specifically identify and communicate color to an immense level of detail. To us being able to use a dozen words for different kinds of red is really pretentious but to them that level of detail is really important for their job and once you learn to see that kind of thing you can't stop.

A lot of things we view as objective are really something we learned to think of that way when we were young, and our brains built circuitry around that view.
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I'm not even talking about how many of those. Specifically the weird colors with no clear origin such as "gooseturd green, pease-porridge tawny, popinjay blue, lusty-gallant, and the-devil-in-the-head."
 
Alphaleph said:
I'm not even talking about how many of those. Specifically the weird colors with no clear origin such as "gooseturd green, pease-porridge tawny, popinjay blue, lusty-gallant, and the-devil-in-the-head."
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Its pretty clear...if you're an artist.
The colors are most often taken from the ingredient, or the thing it was first used to depict
 
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cyberswordsmen said:
Any profession developed it's own special terminology for talking about things that are relevant to it in more detail and quicker. In the case of artists that means being able to very specifically identify and communicate color to an immense level of detail. To us being able to use a dozen words for different kinds of red is really pretentious but to them that level of detail is really important for their job and once you learn to see that kind of thing you can't stop.

A lot of things we view as objective are really something we learned to think of that way when we were young, and our brains built circuitry around that view.
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There's also a marketing push towards making your paint colors new and fancy, that causes renaming of individual shades every so often.
 
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