Monday, January 26, 2004

More color blindness

Before, I already wrote about the colorblindness from Japanese concerning traffic lights, but there is more!

Ever wondered what the color of an apple is when it's not red? Yellow, or green? Well, in Japan, it apparently is very easy, it's all blue! For that matter, an unripe banana, when it's not yet yellow.... it's ....

...indeed, blue!

Hmmm, There seems te be a pattern here, every greenish color that changes into another color (when it ripens) is called blue!
Ok, some Japanese would trow in an nice excuse; long time ago, there were 2 different mays of writing the word for "blue" one represented the green color, and one the blue.