Why The Ancient Greeks Couldn't See Blue

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[@MessYourself]

this video blue my mind

[@georgek4416]

Lol, nice one.

[@thefuturegamer5159]

Why does this guy had 6 million subscribers but 2 replys

[@Neuer2777]

BRUH I'VE BEEN A FAN SINCE 2016

[@jhonnasenrico9505]

Get ur ticket 🎫 here before this comment “BLUE” up

[@cofinify]

@@thefuturegamer5159 because the joke was already in the description, he just stole it

[@trustmeimmexican]

Because, back then, everything was black and white. Trust me. I've seen it in movies.

[@entityexisting]

As a kid,I actually believed this to be a fact for quite a while thanks to Charlie Chaplin..

[@opedromagico]

kkkkkk boa

[@simon2776]

I learned that in Calvin and Hobbes.

[@Yaakuwu]

Oh shit you’re right

[@amistake]

I trust you, your mexican

[@zachnightingale8156]

The ancient Greeks never used the word 'blue' because they only spoke Greek

[@lauras.6339]

smh

[@truthseeker7815]

This comment failed to blue up

[@paulgreen9059]

Never used the word orange either, now you mention it.

[@Amethyst770]

"Tchelet" (sky blue) is mentioned repeatedly in the Old Testament in the book of Exodus in the plans for the Tabernacle and priestly garments. Also, lapis lazuli has been prized since antiquity as the colour of the gods. Blue sapphire stones were treasured, and also costly garments were dyed blue with dye made of snails.

[@kungfuotta]

Of course they couldn't see blue, history was all in black and white. I'm not falling for lies.

[@pradyumnad602]

Big brain

[@elylazpro]

Of course they COULD see blue, because they were humans too!

[@indiramaldonadovalverde778]

ELENI IOANNA LAZOPOULOU r/wooooosh

[@randomlyrandom9974]

@@elylazpro r/wooooosh

[@remistewart3753]

@@elylazpro R/Woooosh

[@earburnerspodcast8002]

Imagine being alive when the Blue DLC dropped.

[@jas.per.25]

Glitch in the matrix

[@perfectchild8073]

Lmao

[@supahcomix]

UPDATES: Water is now blue to spot easily from far Sky is now blue to compliment the ocean Blue dyes are now available in the Egypt region Black objects are now blue

[@zheter7990]

Lmao

[@damianmaver4128]

Underrated comment

[@drheathersebo1949]

The details and decoration on early archaic Greek statues were painted with azurite which gives that brilliant blue colour, traces of which survive.

[@XFD42069]

“Blue is one of the hardest colors to create!“ *Purple: Allow me to introduce myself.*

[@occamraiser]

A bit of trivia. In the renaissance blue was made from powering semi-precious gemstones. So artists would negotiate with their customers how much blue he customer wanted to pay for in the painting (most Madonnas were painted in blue head-dresses if memory serves)

[@man11352]

this comment sucks

[@XFD42069]

@@man11352 …Ok?

[@CyanNStuff]

@@man11352 I request that you to provide a list of your reasons on why you think this comment sucks, along with any sources for any non-opinionated/objective information you may have.

[@elvancor]

@@12bfree4ever4 you got that mixed up, buddy.

[@fruitcake1513]

The language part is also seen when a child doesn’t recognise swearing until they know the word

[@AngelC4K3]

I watched Guardians of the Galaxy a lot as a kid. I did not know the words, sh*t, damn, b*tch, and a*s, were words.

[@fatherdog346]

@MIA they couldve been 7 when it came out. i mean imo theyre still kids but they're an older kid

[@evilhutdug4665]

@@fatherdog346 yeah but he said “when I was a kid” implying he was no longer a kid

[@JosephFlores-yn4yi]

@@evilhutdug4665 he could had been 10

[@xxJing]

I find the concept of swearing funny. They’re words that people want you to dogmatically avoid, but because they are taboo that very fact makes so many people want to use them. It’s like a self fulfilling prophecy.

[@vickylikesthis]

in indonesian, we call pink "young red"

[@fatgirlballet]

that's adorable

[@AbiRizky]

Oh hello. Yeah that or, "guava red" lol

[@gavinattalahadiyan325]

Merah Muda~~~

[@Mister_Clipster]

It's totally accurate if you really think about it.

[@piranhaplantX]

Honestly, pink is essentially just red's baby blue. Among the other named colors in English, pink is probably the most arbitrary one. It's just a range of red tints.

[@MrBobzane]

"When I identify a particular bird, I suddenly see them everywhere."

[@boryagin]

The Bible used the blue color a lot. From the mobile temple in the desert to priestly robes and blue threads in the talit.

[@ROBYNMARKOW]

On Wednesdays we wear a light form of red.

[@chrysanna8896]

Outstanding.

[@fcv4616]

I see what you did there 👌🏼

[@aadhyaivaturi495]

noice mean girls

[@KarateLauren]

sneaky reference, comrade

[@iamdog4864]

Love this

[@ruqayahamad2393]

"the limits of my language mean the limits of my world" Ludwig Wittgenstein

[@mwanikimwaniki6801]

I use this a lot lmao

[@jonasandelfinger4529]

Kluftinger ftw

[@mrkanenas]

I had this realisation last night. Language is so powerful

[@astraeusgodofthestars676]

Time to learn a lot of languages.

[@davidweihe6052]

Wrongo, Wittenstein Fan. Sapir-Whorf has been disproven many times in many situations. There is just a subtle difference in classification speed. Russians would distinguish between navy blue (which is not sea blue, but designed by Navys to be distinguishable from sea blue) and sky blue slightly faster, because they have different words for them (much like the red/pink distinction pointed out in the video).

[@ChaplinLoli]

Very interesting. Fun explanation. Thanks

[@CHixon]

Ancient Egypt highly valued the mineral Lapis Lazuli as well as cobalt, which can produce a vibrant blue appearance.

[@_Envous]

It’s 5020 “Why these people couldn’t see Gyret, Brimple, Prattle, Bete, and Ornhack.”

[@requiem1k87]

_yes_

[@thischannelisinactiveimsor9500]

I can see Ornhack, everyday someone is ornhacking my Minecraft server

[@madison9923]

honestly true, though

[@_Envous]

@@thischannelisinactiveimsor9500 i really set it up for that one didn’t i

[@thischannelisinactiveimsor9500]

@@_Envous Yes and it was very Gyret

[@fcv4616]

Ancient Greeks: “I’m feeling wine-dark today”.

[@rockingamingwiththesahit2145]

Lmfao

[@anikaloves]

drunk?

[@rockingamingwiththesahit2145]

@@anikaloves No, I’m feeling blue today

[@paranorman6999]

Amandaishere.jpg Sweet Amanda, in the Lake Wonder how much She can take Cut Her finger, take her ring Bruise her up, black as sin Shoot Her down, blind her eye Bury Her in the night. See the arms, shake in fear Here She is, Amanda is here. A woman named Amanda married a therapist. A patient of this therapist was obsessed with him and jealous of Amanda, so She kidnapped her, took her to Sorren lake, in Cascada Mira Park, and tortured, blinded, shot and buried her, and also She stole her engagement ring after cutting off the finger. The cops found Amanda bc She tried to crawl out of her grave and died with only the arms sticking out of the mud. Since she didn't want to be forgotten, Amanda came back as an image. As a vengace, a photo of Amanda must be shared in order to avoid being killer or haunted by her.

[@theodoranaku3403]

Με

[@Freespirit.444.]

Brilliant thank you

[@RattusYu]

Blue is a feeling. I couldn't say that I'm feeling wine-dark right now.

[@nathanm.8823]

I'm going to start describing my eye color as wine-dark.

[@Nepthu]

LOL! I like it.

[@theshamanite]

Right on

[@CristiNeagu]

I usually do, after about a bottle's worth, and i have green eyes.

[@nathanm.8823]

@@CristiNeagu Lol sounds like fun

[@sophroniastopher15]

Yes!

[@Apollo_Dionysus_Hermes]

"The human brain is the most complicated thing in the universe." - The human Brain

[@Apollo_Dionysus_Hermes]

@@avetiq3905 I don't get it-

[@ramuneisyummy-6012]

@@Apollo_Dionysus_Hermes he was makeing a joke

[@Apollo_Dionysus_Hermes]

@@ramuneisyummy-6012 *making Also, I can tell he's making a joke, I just don't get the reference

[@nowonmetube]

This sounds so much like a Futurama joke, lmao 🤣

[@generaza7609]

Universe: I thought the inside of me was the most complicated in the universe. Multiverse: Nah...The inside part of me is the most complicated thing inside your Universe. Null Space (outside the Multiverse): oooooooooooh, I am getting a headache...

[@yQaT735M]

They recently uncovered a "Blue Room" in Pompeii. Walls are all solid blue. They saw the same exact colors we do. Just didn't have names for them.

[@cz941]

Funny how the ancient greeks couldn't see blue, but somehow managed to paint their frescos blue.

[@samh808]

1:53 “Blue is the final color“ Purple and Orange: 😔

[@FarfettilLejl]

Magenta entered the chat

[@zn316]

Purple doesnt exist though Violet does

[@shrexyavocado7828]

Grey and Brown: *hello*

[@Geerice]

@@zn316 Yet there's a word for it

[@soosramirez2510]

i’m sure it’s bc they’re not primary colors

[@tammyclairs166]

It’s like when you meet someone new in school and “suddenly u see them everywhere”

[@septiikos9680]

Yeah I like that analogy

[@SpinningSidekick]

Otherwise known as "stalking"

[@Octopixel40]

when you learn a new word and start hearing it more often

[@peter-jx3uc]

The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

[@neil6477]

I can vouch for the idea of being trained to see different 'colours'. When I worked in a laboratory which made colouring for the food and cosmetic industry, I had to learn minute, subtle differences in shades of similar colours. Initially, I couldn't 'see' them, and thought I would never be able to match them. But, after a few months I did begin to notice the very small differences, and this ability grew with time and experience. One day, out of curiosity, I went back to the two samples I had been shown on my first day of work. I was astonished with the differences I now perceived, and couldn't believe that I didn't recognise them when starting out.

[@norbertschanne1943]

Funny thing: ancient greeks had not only one, but at least three different words for blue (two have made it into English: cyan and saphire)... and "chalkion" (=bronze-colored) is likely a kind of blue/turquoise, too, which is used in the Illiad and other early-iron-age literature to describe the color of the sky - supposedly not because of their weird color perception, but of our limited material knowledge; just take a look at the "sky-disc of Nebra" (made out of bronze).

[@jacobkrueger1022]

That feedback loop is also responsible for the weird feeling of when you get a new car, then all the sudden you see people driving the same car as you everywhere.

[@ateshhastam]

Baader -Meinhof phenomenon aka “frequency illusion.”

[@icarusbinns3156]

And yet! I’m hearing my name a heck of a lot more now than just two years ago. That’s the bizarre thing to me

[@majesticpbjcat7707]

Like how I remember as a kid in the 80's and 90's always reading and hearing the phrase "all of a sudden" yet now I read and hear many people saying "all the sudden." Doesn't sound right to me though.

[@bloblovlalalulu3422]

Same with buying a shirt or dress. Suddenly everyone around has the same thing dammit!

[@Dana-ki6vs]

@@bloblovlalalulu3422 probably because you are caught up with the trends and buy stuff at the right time 😂

[@rezievotrex2040]

Pov: you are greek and don't understand why he is talking about semilight black

[@joselitodascandongas4821]

People saw blue in antiquity. The Egyptians called it irtyu or khesbedj (𓐍𓋴𓃀𓆓𓈒). The ancient Hebrews called it Tekhelet. The ancient Romans called it caerŭlus. The sky appears blue in some Pompeii mosaics.

[@amirererojo4701]

1:48 is wild tilted sideways

[@aliciakoepke560]

This actually makes so much sense. As a kid cyan was just blue, beige was yellow, lime was green, magenta was pink etc.

[@rajanyapurohit5113]

wait, magenta isn't pink?

[@WAanik]

As a colorblind adult, all those still resemble similar things.

[@insoft_uk]

Magenta is 100% of Red and Blue totally different to Pink as that contains 100% red and then a certain equal % of Green and Blue, so Pink is a colour just not a true colour Brown is actually Dark Orange so another none true colour

[@ninjawafflezz5356]

When I was a kid I would just refer to them as "Dark blue and light blue. Dark green and light green. Maybe ones darker than the dark one, guess the middle one is just green now." Magenta would have been "light purple" for me.

[@ninjawafflezz5356]

@@rajanyapurohit5113 I always stuck it in between purple and pink. Idk if it really belongs there but that's what I did

[@irok1]

Can't wait for the sequel in 2020 years when they say "These people couldn't see the color Lepu"

[@guywithdreads]

There are colors we can’t actually see tho

[@cezarcatalin1406]

Poke'mon Trainer Chri$$$ 303 Yeah, you can’t see gamma rays... (And if you can, please leave the area you are sitting in immediately).

[@guywithdreads]

@@cezarcatalin1406 too late becoming the hulk

[@greencrystalsword3713]

I would expect Lepu to be a maybe sapphire color... like a dark version on blue-green

[@Ap1hw]

“How did they live without aprillion??”

[@tegathemenace]

This video is really confirmation bias well packaged

[@_rishwin]

Nice information

[@phlave]

When you learn a new word and start seing and hearing it everywhere it's a sign that you should clear your cookies in the Matrix.

[@michaelwalker8250]

You're funny

[@davidgumazon]

Certificate (Valid) Cookies (69 in use)

[@unlimitedgnar1955]

When I got a new car, I suddenly started noticing that everyone had my car model verses before I never even noticed that the model existed

[@MerxadMehr]

Selection bias

[@trudycolborne2371]

My registration says my car is gray when it's clearly a light golden yellow. Now I notice every car with the same paint colour. The parking lot search has trained us.

[@untitled2792]

@@trudycolborne2371 were they colorblind?

[@SkyManBGProductions]

I bought a fanny pack and suddenly everyone in my town started having one out of nowhere 😂😂

[@justinbolsen3053]

dunning krueger effect

[@Newstatejournal1]

Excellent!

[@Ivehadenuff]

This explains why having a large vocabulary makes a person have more precise thoughts.

[@nikkiespinosa8854]

More precise, maybe. But more useful? Smarter? Better? That's another story.

[@mermaidismyname]

@@nikkiespinosa8854 eh considering the number of times in my brain I'm like "ya know what's the word for *gestures broadly* ya know that highly specific abstract concept that I cannot describe in anyway but have a perfect feeling of in my mind" I'm going to say that having esoteric vocabulary is sometimes useful to prevent you from going you know the thing with the thing and the other thing...

[@nikkiespinosa8854]

@@mermaidismyname but would the THOUGHT you're having actually be more useful? ...No...Even more so, is it all that useful in communicating to have a large vocabulary with specific words for specific things? Probably only some times. I think people with smaller vocabularies often are far more poetic than people with large vocabularies. "Wine-dark sea" is more poetic than "blue sea," for example. And I often find myself wishing I could talk like people in the rural areas of the USA who are so creative in describing things extremely accurately and poetically using a small vocabulary of common words.

[@sazcxieo]

Also explains why its easier to memorize numbers or dates or events because you associate that number with something for example 23;michael jordan.

[@Azz-M]

Me speaking arabic :

[@navytav]

Somali doesn't have a word for "purple." All my friends would say it was either a dark blue or sometime a dark pink.

[@ishmaelm1932]

Warya beenta jooji. purple is "barbal" Lmfaoooo

[@navytav]

@@ishmaelm1932 Macalimiintayda u sheeg!

[@IronNidow]

In Portuguese we have 2 words of purple: Roxo( closer to Blue), and Lilás (closer to Red)

[@bradleyvrooman1801]

I can't even see purple lol. It's just dark blue to me. I also can't see green, it's just a brown or orange. Art class was fun when I was a kid.

[@gaybeansprout]

Purple doesn't even exist ._.

[@johnbrubaker2033]

I wonder how many ancient Greeks were interviewed before making this video.

[@Mrnovanova]

The feedback loop is similar to when you're shopping for a specific car or buy it and then you start noticing it everywhere.

[@pawel-_-]

Fun fact: blue was so rare, that lapis lazuli - now considered to be semi-precious stone - was once more important then gold. Lapis also often was depicted as magical and thanks to that we can see it having magical abilities in games like Minecraft and other media.

[@prakharmishra3000]

That's a real stone? Never knew

[@BeingBhumika]

@@prakharmishra3000 Yeah it is! We study about it in history

[@TheKarret]

@@prakharmishra3000 I bought a soap that had a lapis lazuli stone on it!

[@prakharmishra3000]

@@TheKarret I wonder if your skin is fine :P

[@tristans_]

@@prakharmishra3000 it’s what they use to make blue oil paint actually.

[@Miguel-cn5lu]

I mean they weren’t wrong calling the sky “black” because it is technically black at night

[@iakovos56]

You have black photo

[@xerotolerant]

Lol. The sky is still ‘blue’ at night. Stealth jets have lights along their surface to match the blue of the sky at night. Otherwise they would just appear to be giant black objects against the blue background.

[@nikifora.738]

@@iakovos56 his photo is blue

[@iAMJaws]

@@xerotolerant in actuality the sky is not blue. It's colourless by itself but due to external factors it changes.

[@MojaKann]

technically 😂

[@Washikie]

This was fascinating. I've never considered this kind of link between language and neurology.

[@cashreedhar]

Blue appeared in ancient text many times, but I'm afraid not in your research. You mentioned ancient Indian text- the word for Blue in Sanskrit is "Neel". Neel is also the word for sky in Sanskrit (many sanskrit words for color are based on object - like orange) It is mentioned multiple times to describe the color of peacock, sky and even Hindu God Vishnu (he had the blue tint). Lord Shiva drank the poison and hence his throat turned into Blue - hence his name "Neelakanth". Mountains afar are described as blue and blue is everywhere.

[@mokeballs6676]

This comment is stupid but I can't be bothered

[@cashreedhar]

@mokeballs6676 stupid because you couldn't bothered to use your brain cells to understand the comment?

[@peterob8980]

Same as the oldest theravada texts describe 6 coloured rays that was emited by The sacred Lord Buddha at the 4th week after lord attained the enlightenment when the lord buddha meditated on the Abhidamma. There the text originally mentioned one colour as "Neela" in Pali language. It means blue. Which is used as one colour in international buddhist flag.

[@Ch0senJuan]

@@mokeballs6676you were bothered though.

[@herbpowell343]

According to Wikipedia, lapis lazuli has been mined in Afghanistan since the 7th Millennium BC: Humans seeing and even seeking out blue is older than civilization itself (Wikipedia further notes that lapis lazuli is also present among artifacts found at Bhirrana, the oldest Indus Valley civilization so far discovered.) It further notes that the Latin word "lazuli" ultimately derives from a Persian word that means (wait for it...) "sky." The worst part is that the video explicitly acknowledges that some people (somehow) thought ancient peoples literally SAW differently than we do solely to immediately dismiss that claim, and yet, the title remains "Why the Ancient Greeks Couldn't See Blue." That's never passed the smell test because it never could. Your regular reminder that "typing words into a search engine isn't actually RESEARCH, it's just a way to (possibly) FIND (some) actual research others conducted. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZ6zeKSVmNpobrs

[@aarnaasharma6518]

Imagine 10 thousand years later somebody making a video : Why ancient millennials and Gen-Z's couldn't see the colour "Terp"

[@themodernviriato9383]

Exactly!!

[@saltycelery2045]

True

[@wolf12345]

I’m colorblind so I didn’t know what color that was

[@juliecooly3]

😂😂😂

[@daniellevy4104]

Yeah probably , and also probably you will be there to see it.

[@RandomStuff-he7lu]

Redheads are called redheads even though they clearly have orange hair because English didn't have a word for orange until quite recently and so orange was once considered a shade of red and yellow.

[@kaberite]

Orange colour was named after the fruit

[@indraservo5764]

And today there are over 20 different names for color red

[@HermanVonPetri]

And brown is just a dark shade of orange. Which means that brown headed people are just "red heads" with a darker shade of the pigment.

[@nicomoist5336]

Or how people were called black regardless of the actual skin tone is more brown

[@GLASSB182]

Like "that fruit called an orange is the color, yellow-red." In retrospect is ideal.

[@stevesloan7132]

"To venture out upon the wine dark sea." There was some speculation that Homer may have been using the color of deep red wine in a terra cotta cup to describe the color of the sea at a certain time of day. As in early dawn when the Sun is at a low angle and the tide is right for sailing or starting a journey. Translation of ancient languages into the modern is an art, not a science. It must take into account both the literal as well as the "felt" meaning (i.e., the emotional content) which the ancient author's phrase actually carried. And to get that right is no mean feat.

[@scrooglemcduck1163]

Balderdash. The ancient Maya had an ancient technique for making BLUE pigment -- pigment that lasts till this day, no fading. Some researchers discovered the recipe and tried to (foolishly) patent it, only to find later that it's not cost-effective to boil pigment for three days straight.

[@KARATEbyJesse]

Ancient Japanese didn’t have a word for green. 🇯🇵 It was just a shade of blue. They still call the stoplights red and blue, even though it’s green! 🚦

[@danravv]

Yeah, it confused me a lot when I lived in Japan. They also call green apples, "blue" apples.

[@sophroniastopher15]

They know what's up

[@sadisrmaacy4341]

what do you mean "even though its green". its as much their definition as our.

[@ZZMJo]

Yellow+blue=green. Well, they are not wrong...

[@slfanta]

Lol ancient Japanese,,, That's because ancient Chinese didn't have a word to distinguish blue and green. Both blue and green are described as the same color 青 in Chinese and also in Japanese 青い (Aoi)

[@TheRedEncryption]

just make a word for every color possible and *_T R A N S C E N D_*

[@toldfable]

RGB or CMYK

[@HaroldoPinheiro-OK]

All the ten million?

[@TheRedEncryption]

@@HaroldoPinheiro-OK Yes

[@benny4798]

@@TheRedEncryption what about a word for every sound, smell, feel, touch and taste as well? You can’t truly transcend without doing it for all your senses.

[@extragroovy735]

Literally every makeup brand

[@farinozcelik]

Ancient texts do not mention oxygen. Therefore, it did not exist back then.

[@yeyogapriya5883]

Trend continues for LEDs as well

[@blackhawks81H]

Cyan, is blue. "Its name is derived from the Ancient Greek κύανος, transliterated kyanos, meaning dark blue, dark blue enamel, Lapis lazuli"

[@billkeithchannel]

But yet in modern times cyan is a light blue.

[@JTNashville]

Kinda puts the kibosh on this whole video. Nice one.

[@alexanderhenby1362]

Except that isn't exactly true either. Entomologicaly speaking the word κύανος "According to Beekes, probably from Hittite (kuwannan-, “precious stone, copper, blue”), likely from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwey- (“to shine, white, light”) (compare *ḱweytós (“white”)" It was likely used previously to describe the oxidation of copper which anyone who has been to New York can tell you, isn't blue.

[@charimuvilla8693]

@@alexanderhenby1362 In ancient greek it is very clear "κυανος" means blue. Telling you this as someone who has studied ancient greek. This video is painful to watch lol.

[@cherylmcginnis7696]

@@alexanderhenby1362 The medical term for someone turning blue due to lack of oxygen is cyanotic.

[@sanahameed9832]

You know it’s kind of like meeting new people. Before you meet them they blend in with the crowd, but after meeting them, they start popping up in the hallway all the time

[@thedevil9442]

they still blend in with the crowd for me.

[@94interested]

Very interesting. Something I never thought of.

[@liberty-matrix]

Language trains ones brain. One cannot comprehend something without naming it.

[@KS-sj8nb]

It's like the Eskimo/Inuit having no word for 'snow', but lots of words for different kinds of snow.

[@arkrules8557]

No... there was "cyan" meaning blue in ancient Greek. And many others covering basic colours and shades

[@arkrules8557]

Not only in Ancient Greek in Koine but in Modern Greek too. Some say κυανόλευκη (cyan-white) Greece's flag instead of blé (blue)

[@Polyglot_English]

Детерминизм это Свобода 🤙

[@customsongmaker]

"Why Homer couldn't see blue" - he was blind

[@ferocient]

God, I love this comment! ;-)

[@thebad6246]

Or maybe because you can't see colours if you don't exist.

[@customsongmaker]

@@thebad6246 - The Odyssey exists. Therefore, someone wrote it. We refer to that person as Homer.

[@bernard7057]

@@customsongmaker but we also refer to the people who wrote different poems as homer. So wouldnt homer, at this point, be more lile a job title

[@customsongmaker]

@@bernard7057 - I try not to refer to different people as the same person. Have you considered the possibility that Homer wrote different poems?

[@stevewhalen6973]

Blue LEDs were the the last and by far the most difficult light emitting diode to create.

[@stacij444]

😆 that’s funny. There’s blue rooms at Pompeii 🤷🏼‍♀️😁

[@owenleech6569]

"But blue? it was one of the hardest colors to create" Purple: hold my beer

[@flakey-finn]

Purple? Blue? Arent that black?

[@GoldenGrenadier]

RIP snails.

[@ThisIsNotAhnJieRen]

@@GoldenGrenadier Hahaha. Is there a country flag that has Purple?

[@davincent98]

@@GoldenGrenadier don't forget the mollusks. Also the urine.

[@jimezsmoots2172]

@@ThisIsNotAhnJieRen no, due to purple being extremely hard to create, countries didn’t have the money to create them through dyes. Quick lesson here, basically too expensive and too time wasting to create for stuff that needed the flags. Such as army’s and shit

[@Baobabooo]

In old Japanese, we call green “ao” meaning “blue”. We still call green signal “ao-shingo(signal)”. I always thought it was strange, but I guess we had way more words to describe colors back then.

[@wolf12345]

I’m also Japanese just cool that ur here

[@Baobabooo]

@@wolf12345 heyyy what’s up!👋🏻

[@mhdfrb9971]

aozora ni naru song

[@AsapSCIENCE]

Very cool!

[@Primalxbeast]

But there's a kanji for green, so I guess that the Chinese had a word for green before the Japanese?

[@user-zw6hb1uc3m]

They called the sky copper colored because of malachite, a copper ore. Wine can come in different colors.

[@BionicPig95]

One writer from a region of the world doesn’t mention a particular colour. “Guess the people from that region were unable to see that colour”.

[@patrikcath1025]

**learns to identify every hex RGB code** *Mortals, I can see through your camouflage*

[@lexecomplexe4083]

Until you learn you can no longer see magenta because it isn't real 😓

[@hridyanadappattel4400]

Unless you come across animals like mantis shrimp

[@4n0ngaming]

@@lexecomplexe4083 magenta has a hex code

[@lexecomplexe4083]

@@4n0ngaming Magenta isn't an actual color though. Its literally red and violet light alternating at a speed high enough that your brain interprets it as a new color. One that doesn't exist in the physical world. Magenta is quite literally an illusion

[@beberivera7011]

This is why languages fascinate me: there are tangible differences in thought processes that are rooted in the language we speak.

[@conure3029]

if u wanna read a philosopher who’d agree w u, check out Derrida! (warning: he’s not the most accessible)

[@ashleyydong]

That is such a beautiful description

[@Pippis78]

Me too, language tells a lot about the people, their overall mindset and culture. Like Arabic - quite dramatic/emotional, very poetic. Japanese - riddled with double entandres and non-direct ways of expression. I often mix foreign words in when I speak because sometimes there just isn't a word for a thing in my language or it has more power in that other language. In my native language Finnish it's very easy to just make up words on the spot and people still totally understand what you mean 😀 I think that's pretty special? Finnish is quite flexible even though it's quite complicated, you can express yourself super specifically/accurately and pack a lot of information in just a few words. As a people we are known for being very straightforward and really bad at small talk. People of few but poignant words. Honest to a fault. Very practical and efficient.

[@aleleliah]

@@Pippis78 i wonder if all nordic languages are similar to how you would describe finnish. I beg your pardon if I seem to stereotype you guys

[@Pippis78]

@@aleleliah No harm 🙂 But actually Finnish isn't a nordic language - or at least not at all related to the other nordic languages. Finnish is part of the finno-ugric language family. Estonian is very similar and Hungarian is a more distant relative. Ofcourse we do have lots of loan words from swedish and Russian especially. Pretty much all the other languages in europe and Russian too are indo-european languages. It's a VERY common misconception that Finnish is either similar to swedish or to russian. When infact russian and swedish are closer to each other than Finnish to either one of them 😆 But culturally we have a lot in common with the other nordic countries and there are many things in the nature of people that are similar. The other nordic languages are very similar, but from the perspective of a finn - if you learn just one language like english or swedish, then it's quite easy to learn German, Dutch, French, Spanish... To us they all are pretty similar. The interesting thing many people are not at all aware is that modern english is in big part Swedish(/Danish/Norwegian). Old/middle(?) English mixed and merged with the language of the "viking" settlers (they weren't just raiders, they settled there and never left, immersed in the population). They were related languages to begin with, but this merge happened later. Yeah 😂 I LOVE languages. Wish I had gone to study that properly.

[@jazzyjswift]

Proof that using labels and categories to separate things shapes our reality and changes how we view things.

[@re-nz3sk]

in the Bible, the children of Israel were instructed to have a blue hem on their garments to signify "fidelity to the law", from which we get "the thin blue line".

[@BriggsWare]

Imagine in the future where other people are surprised we can not see Humulkus

[@Roseviell]

What is it.

[@alecity4877]

@@Roseviell a colour between red and green

[@psyducktective]

And octarine

[@trudycolborne2371]

This explains a great deal about my son's Among Us videos complaining about cyan.

[@40watt53]

Wait y'all can't see humulkus?

[@JonJon4351]

Basically an example of this today would be how cyan and indigo are both "blue" despite being very different. Like I feel like red and orange are more alike than cyan and indigo.

[@electroflames]

@@banhammer3904 pretty sure there is no such thing as a fake color, what are you talking about

[@elrvengador]

Brown is not a real color is just dark orange

[@reddytoplay9188]

@@electroflames I think this was a joke about ancient people.

[@iankearns774]

@@banhammer3904 As a qualified printer of over 30 years I dispute that, most of my working life I have dealt with the four colour process, cyan, magenta, yellow and black (keyline) and all the colours when combined that they can make. Indigo is obviously between blue and violet on the rainbow spectrum but nowhere near black as a colour.Indigo used to be called bronze blue as an ink but these days as a spot colour is sort of like a reflex blue. You may need to get checked for colour blindness if you think your statement is factual.

[@desanctisapostata]

@@iankearns774 Also people always forget that it depends on the color spectrum or theory we are talking about, wether it's substractive or additive

[@carlosmedina7619]

The same occurs with the brown color. The brown color is only a dark tone of orange but we distinguish it like a different color.

[@CescoAurriello]

This video has blued my mind

[@crowsquared]

This is every beginner fanfic writer trying to describe blue eyes without using the word blue

[@clownthatescapedthecircus296]

BAHAHHAHA 😂😭😭

[@rossanderson4440]

(Blackadder): "So what you're saying is, is that something you've never seen is slightly bluer than something else you've never seen."

[@njb1126]

Ah yes the desperate attempt by young adult novelists (a term I’m using loosely here) to stand out more ...her eyes were a deep shade, a dazzling hue comparable to cloudless sky or the Adriatic Sea...

[@CannabisDreams]

Eyes like spheres of tinted ice

[@yourmum7135]

'There arent many blue foods' Percy jackson is typing...

[@rockygive7400]

Penguinz Gamez hello fellow pjo fan

[@calebbangean5341]

I love those books

[@Potato-gn4di]

Blue waffle blue cookies blue cake blue, I should stop now

[@epanije6086]

Blue cookies!

[@salmaosama7867]

Sally Jackson is typing...

[@Eggy-xk5so]

My mother (Chinese) would always call any shade of blue other than the ones from the sky/water green. Like turquoise, cyan, and other stuff.

[@rikardotsamsiyu]

*ASAP science:* “blue is always the last color to enter a language.” *Orange:* “am I a joke to you?”

[@charalambosm]

CYAN was the ancient Greek word for blue. Etymology and terminology Its name is derived from the Ancient Greek word kyanos (κύανος), meaning "dark blue enamel, Lapis lazuli".[20][21] It was formerly known as "cyan blue"[22] or cyan-blue,[23] and its first recorded use as a color name in English was in 1879.[24] Further origins[clarification needed] of the color name can be traced back to a dye produced from the cornflower (Centaurea cyanus).[25][26] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyan

[@oldchannelnewoneisinaboutp3726]

greek: "looks up the sky" the sky: [REDACTED]

[@nthgth]

Scp foundation?

[@michellevillanueva4709]

Inquisitorial red tape?

[@imperatusmauser7096]

Im greek, can confirm

[@toothpasteman3400]

or [data expunged] and █████████

[@jbb8261]

Error: 404 not found

[@clark9992]

It's ironic that blue is such a recent addition to the human palette, when you consider that most people around the world claim that blue is their favourite colour.

[@thatswhatshesaid.literally737]

So you're saying they're just going with the latest fad. Lol 😄

[@ConnerLivingston]

And they say that blue makes people perceive you as trustworthy, and that's what you should wear it to an interview (- not sure who says that, but I've heard it before)

[@IsThisThingEvenOnOrWhat]

Steven Tyler dissagrees

[@xjaaron7]

This blue my mind

[@hypdal1982]

1:52 minor exception : JAPAN (no green)

[@shaded3293]

This could explain why artists can see color very well, and give each one a name.

[@justaname6011]

Trained their brains maybe, from interacting on a daily basis with the need to know this

[@hairglowingkyle4572]

Depends on the artist, I can't remember the names but I'm like "Ah yes this pinkish darkish reddish yellowish but a little but of violet color"

[@rjvasquez3464]

@@hairglowingkyle4572 definitely this. i can see small differences like which is warmer or cooler but I don't think i can name colors accurately

[@randomuser3988]

Also why people who are music nerds can differentiate between genres, but my mom says "what is this metal junk?" every time she hears an electric guitar 😂

[@matandana110]

@@hairglowingkyle4572 this is me I think the brown that has a tint of sap green

[@deltacat27]

People in 2000 years: Why The Ancient Earthlings Couldn't See Ultraviolet

[@MrMirville]

Yes they could see it, they could even manufacture lamps of that color of light, but they called it black light even though everybody was perfectly aware that such a black had nothing to do with the colour of the starry night.

[@Demogorgon47]

People in 20000 years, Why Ancient Earthlings couldn't see colours in 5 dimensions.

[@williamjones4164]

@@MrMirville You cannot actually observe true ultraviolet light. It isn’t possible for humans; although, we can observe the effects UV light can have on certain substances and the violet visible light usually emitted along with the UV light (e.g. torches usually operate by emitting a small range of wavelengths so there can be overlaps between UV and the short wavelength visible light which is violet in colour hence both are present).

[@CaptainSlapaDome]

@@williamjones4164 yup. On the same token, I read a study some years back (2009 - 2011) about a birth "defect" that comes to women from their fathers side, somehow granting them true 3d vision, or the ability to see the whole color spectrum. It was estimated that the numbers of women with this defect, worldwide, measure in the low thousands. I wonder how things would look from those eyes.

[@andrerobatino6298]

@@williamjones4164 People with a condition called aphakia (a missing lens in the eye, most often caused by cataract surgery) can see ultraviolet to about 300 nm (the range for normal visible light is about 380 to 720 nm). The lens normally blocks it.

[@user-xw4gr9kn8n]

It's well documented the ancient Egyptians loved lapis lazuli for its color; it's been collected or mined for the last 9000 years. "Blue" in it's earliest forms was "sky." It's absurd junk science to think that early people could not distinguish blue. They most certainly could. The color is prized, like sapphire, turquoise, and lapis because blue is a rare color in nature.

[@MarilynBurgeson]

When you mix pink paint, you use red, white and a few drops of blue.

[@ad5048]

*The year is 3100* OurTube: Why Ancient Europeans Couldn't See Blurple

[@vellivampire]

😂😂😂 i don't understand man clearly they were colourblind. They didn't even knew Rorange and Pellow🤷

[@user-eb5gd4gm2w]

"Ourtube" 😂😂

[@adityabarettaputra6786]

How about Blite?

[@Pokemaster-wg9gx]

The funniest part is the Discord logo color is literally called Blurple

[@mlokgerm]

Are you trying to say that communism took over

[@AstonishingStudios]

You almost look like Mark Rober in the thumbnail

[@erikziak1249]

Mark Robber is much more smooth and smarter... No offense intended.

[@AFrogInTheStars]

Ohhhh, *that’s* who he reminded me of!

[@jaryno4774]

I thought he was Mark Rober in the thumbnail lol

[@JacobRy]

@@erikziak1249 ...

[@TheSlicingSword]

Thats why I clicked hahaha

[@yipman33]

Pink isn't a "shade" of red. It's a "tint" of red. Shades are darker than the referred color, tints are lighter.

[@TrueUnderDawgGaming]

I always thought that “Sky” was its own color to them. So they would just say “Her dress is the color of the sky”

[@roy04]

That's like saying there is no brown, only dull orange Oh wait. there's a video on that as well

[@c-bass2777]

Oh hey "I understood that reference" 😄

[@davincent98]

@@c-bass2777 yeah, me too

[@daas3715]

We're on a similar youtube algorithm?

[@nanaphobe]

@@daas3715 funny how the brown video is below this one on my recommends

[@quantum.9883]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZmXkoqQh9mHrbc This one??

[@kanyekubrick5391]

That makes sense why, in the Odyssey, they kept describing Athena’s eyes as “foamy, ocean.. *grey* “

[@xl000]

ocean gets its color from the sky... so if the weather is meh.... the water will look accordingly

[@aserta]

It's ok. Not like we mention to you, young pups, that we used to have to spend hours to boil eggs just right to get balls for our computer mice.

[@saracole7623]

That’s why they describe her eyes as grey!!! She actually had blue eyes! Oh my hackers!

[@twystedhumour]

@@aserta that's fast. i used to wait for quail to lay eggs to get one for mine, and then i boil it.

[@daerdevvyl4314]

If your eyes are foamy, see a doctor.

[@larsedik]

Indigo dye has been known since 4000 BC and described as "indigo", which is another word for purplish blue. It was used a lot in ancient Egypt (which the Hebrews were familiar with) and in ancient India. The Hebrews probably associates indigo (and therefore blue) with Pharaohs. The Egyptians got the dye from Murex sea snails.

[@smartguy-lx9im]

Incidentally, i just noticed that colors are added to languages in order of increasing spectral frequency - get a chart that shows light frequency vs color and you'll notice that the five colors mentioned appear in the same order as they appear in languages.

[@user-kv8gf7zv9n]

“Why the Greeks can’t see blue”: Greeks: Hey, you guys like the invisible flag?

[@user-kv8gf7zv9n]

The joke is Greece’s flag is Blue. 🇬🇷

[@user-kv8gf7zv9n]

@@october17leftyjason32 🤡 Take a joke

[@flare8197]

@@october17leftyjason32 so white flag

[@user-vg2cz4cq5h]

@Victor Mace in what all foreigners call Greece, a proud people called Ellines(eng. Hellene) live...and they call their country Ellada, or Ellas(eng. Hellas. Greece , Grecia, and Grecos are names from the days of Rome, which Romans used. We are the Hellenes and we still have the DNA to prove it despite conquests. Eat your heart out

[@user-vg2cz4cq5h]

Modern day Turkey was once Ionia, and Byzantium , even there the population has a large proportion of its DNA from the Hellenes, you must realize that the natives simply coverted to Islam to preserve their property rights and avoid taxation.

[@shreyashrout6563]

Can we just appreciate the person who had to read through all the text to find out there wasn’t the word blue in it

[@dimitrarena5643]

Well.... No. Cause apparently they refer to one text. There is tons of evidence of the word blue in Greek texts and as I read in the comments, in Indian as well. This is misinformation

[@pixelatedcherry]

dude, i had to read it in school. it’s not that hard.

[@marta1999smile2]

bruh, these books are around 300 pages long. its genuinly not that hard to read through them😂

[@xtaylorxboyx]

@@pixelatedcherry what’s the name of the book you had to read for school?

[@KP-we9ce]

Ever heard of data processing?

[@sandraioana6359]

I cant belive you actually made monney on this Video.

[@hunthse]

Have you ever heard of Babylon and their Ishtar Gates covered in lapis lazuli, a very vibrant blue? That was over 500BCE!