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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/2/2019 1:45 AM, Rhona Fenwick
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ghItlhpu' SuStel, jatlh:</div>
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> How a language divides up its color words has little to do
with whether</div>
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> they can visually perceive those colors. There are real
human languages <br>
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> that have the same number of color words as Klingons, but
speakers of</div>
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> these languages don't lack our color vision. It's
canonically speculated</div>
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> that Klingons can't see all of purple that we do, but
otherwise their</div>
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> vision seems to be similar to ours.</div>
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To be fair, we don't actually know this canonically.</div>
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<p>I failed to make the scope of my "canonically" comment clear. I
meant it's canonically speculated that Klingons can't see all of
purple that we do, but I personally observe that otherwise their
vision seems to be similar to ours. I agree that we don't have any
real information on the details.<br>
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