HOW DO WE SEE COLOUR?

Painting by Tess Recordon
I visited this artist's home and studio in 2016 during Cambridge Open Studios and I was genuinely impressed by her landscapes. If you happen to visit Cambridge in July, don't miss it. She is based in Grantchester, a nice river walk from Cambridge, now famous for a popular TV show.

Read the article: YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE AFFECTS WHAT YOU CAN AND CA'NT SEE (source: Research Digest)

“The present results show for the first time that … our native language – and the color categories we apply within it – can influence whether we consciously perceive a stimulus or not,” the researchers write.

Names of colours in English

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

What might come in handy here is the suffix "-ish", don't you think?

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Idiomatic language: your true colors

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Lyrics

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