Re: CONLANG: color words (was: cartography)

[brg@NETCOM.COM (Bruce R. Gilson)]

hmiller@IO.COM (Herman Miller) wrote:

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>>When working with colors (and looking for suitable abbreviations), it is
>>always slightly annoying that blue, brown, and black all begin with B.  It
>>would be much neater if each principal color started with a unique letter.

>Interesting suggestion.  Eklektu "blu" and "brun" both begin with B; perhaps
>I should go back to one of the alternatives "sini", "lan", or "glas" for
>blue.  (I keep a few alternate versions of Eklektu words around just in case.)

Since in Welsh, "glas" means both blue and green, why not use it for cyan? At-
though "cyan" is not a common word in English, it is important in color theory
and a new language ought to have a word for it.

                                             Bruce R. Gilson
                                             brg@netcom.com