>Color and language, both, fascinate me. **Same here. >Language: It appears from encounters I've had, and texts that I've read, >that blue and red are virtually one in Chinese. We divide the spectrum in >different ways. **And I believe, when I was teaching spec ed, somewhere I had a workshop on cultural differences/languages and learned that in some native American cultures there was only one word which meant warm colors and one word for cool. "Warm" and "cool", of course, may mean different things in different language/cultures. :-) -- susan, who is..... owned by Jasper & Schubert the Standard Poodles, Gracie the Rhodesian, Pup-Quiz the Basenji and their Basenji brother, Jones.... on the North Coast of CA, USA Zone 9 susanann@sbcglobal.net, copyright 2004