"The idea of ‘colour universals’ – conceived of as empirical universals of language and thought – is self-contradictory. There can be no universals in how people habitually think and talk about colour, given that in many languages people do not talk about colour at all."

#Color #ColorMaps #Visualization #Plotting #DataViz #Wierzbicka

There are many color maps that are claimed to offer the best color palettes for data visualization. However, I invite you to think about this statement by linguist Anna Wierzbicka:

"Do all people live in a world full of colours? Perceptually, yes (unless they are visually impaired), but conceptually, no: there are many languages which have no word for ‘colour’ and in which the question ‘what colour is it?’ cannot be asked and presumably does not arise."

#Color #DataViz #Plotting #Wierzbicka

A HUMAN BEING - The Universal Model

"Although undoubtedly cultural models of a person vary cross-culturally, there is also a remarkably “thick” and rich folk model that is universal. We can identify this model simply by identifying certain ways of speaking that we find in all languages." Anna Wierzbicka

#Person #People #Psychology #Society #Sociology #Ethics #Anthropology #Religion #Economics #Politics #Finance #DecisionMaking #Wierzbicka #SemanticPrimes #NaturalSemanticMetalanguage

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It's in traditional "Aussie" English too, part of the tough, anti sentimental ethos. You can search up a good study using "Wierzbicka" and "sook".

Anna #Wierzbicka is an amazing Polish-born Australian #linguist who has written extensively about Aussie English language and culture (and many other topics)

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