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dgreensp on June 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How we gave colors names and it messed with our br...

This is fascinating. By teaching our kids to use our culture's color words, we are training them in a specific classification skill, so that when they see a color, the name of its class comes to mind.

Evbn on June 17, 2012 [–]

Same thing with the sounds used in spoken language, which varies between groups of people.

dgreensp on June 19, 2012 | [–]

Good point, ability to distinguish certain vowel or consonant sounds is just the same way.

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