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@solpahi solpahi commented Jun 12, 2014

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Let's make a global decision about the color gismu. Here are my questions:

  1. Are there any current color gismu that need changing? Some change in the wording? Let's make sure that they are all okay (they probably are, but maybe some of them can be made even clearer)
  2. Are any colors missing? Please see this page: http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=new%20color%20gismu
    It states: "We already have nine color gismu, RGB and CMY along with brown, white, black, and gray.
    We also have violet (a tertiary color) and orange (also tertiary). My opinion is that if we have two tertiary colors (four if you count gray and brown) then we should have all six (or eight)"

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Let's make a global decision about the color gismu. Here are my questions:

1) Are there any current color gismu that need changing? Some change in the wording? Let's make sure that they are all okay (they probably are, but maybe some of them can be made even clearer)
2) Are any colors missing? Please see this page: http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=new%20color%20gismu
It states: "We already have nine color gismu, RGB and CMY along with brown, white, black, and gray.
We also have violet (a tertiary color) and orange (also tertiary). My opinion is that if we have two tertiary colors (four if you count gray and brown) then we should have all six (or eight)" 

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@solpahi

solpahi commented Jun 12, 2014

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For example, the square brackets that say "color adjective" could be replaced by normal text:

x1 is red/crimson/ruddy [color adjective].
x1 is red/crimson/ruddy in color.
x1 is colored red/crimson/ruddy.

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IMHO yellow is a primary colour, and the primary colours are the opponent process colours:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponent_process
Why do I think this? The opponent-process model of colours seem to make more psychological sense, and I believe lojban colour gismu should set out to describe colours from a psychological starting point.

Therefore I think we should add the missing secondary colour: lime.

I also think we should remove brown and purple/violet, and set some conventions for lujvo.
We could instead add more colour words, but I would prefer if we didn't keep any asymmetry.
(As for gray, I consider it a secondary colour, made by mixing any two opposite colours, or, canonically, black and white)

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