Re: If you're not an English native speaker, please don't waste OUR

CDB wrote:
R H Draney wrote:
Mike Lyle filted:

Chuck Riggs wrote:
On 23 May 2008 21:15:47 -0700, R H Draney <dadoctah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
[...]
I have no idea what you people are on about...everybody knows
there are exactly six colors; no more, no fewer....r

RoyGBiv...I count seven.

Surely Real Men Don't Separate Indigo?

My name is Indigo Montoya...you killed my premise...prepare to
dye....r

Is no one going to post <applause>? Then I do.

I did hear that we owe indigo to Newton's deep spiritual need for a
prime number of colours in the spectrum. (Bv. That's Serbian,
right?)

Yes, I think he was a chromatologist from Grk. But while I know the
physical equipment is pretty fixed and universal, is it possible that
some people can see further along at the red or violet ends of the
spectrum than others can? And, in supplement, is it possible that some
see intermediate shades more distinctly than do others? (I do mean
objectively, rather than after training.)

--
Mike.


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