[tlhIngan Hol] “What color is it?”

[Jeffrey Clark]

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> On Mar 11, 2019, at 08:58, Will Martin <willmartin2 at mac.com> wrote:
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> They have color words for the four colors they paint things: Green, Red, Whiteand Black. I’ve built a couple of Bird of Prey models. That pretty much covers the spectrum (except for white, which isn’t really used in that context). Everything else’s color is described as “resembling” something with a natural color for which Klingon has no word.

This is how many English colour words are derived as well — being the name of the thing that is that colour: orange (fruit), violet, rose, pink, indigo (flowers), olive (fruit), gold (metal), teal (bird), chartreuse (drink)… Klingon really isn’t that different IMO.