On 9/2/2019 1:45 AM, Rhona Fenwick wrote:
ghItlhpu' SuStel, jatlh:
How a language divides up its color words has little to do with whether they can visually perceive those colors. There are real human languages that have the same number of color words as Klingons, but speakers of these languages don't lack our color vision. It's canonically speculated that Klingons can't see all of purple that we do, but otherwise their vision seems to be similar to ours.
To be fair, we don't actually know this canonically.
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. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name