Blue: In Search of Nature's Rarest Color | 
pickI mostly read this on the 31st Dec, but I didn't want it to count for 2023, as that'd have had me reading 401 books in 2023. Not a nice number.
So I finished the last few pages today. It's fairly light reading, though it explains some things (like the ways we see colour) very well, and was an interesting read.
Faranae I assume that means it didn't do the weird thing some people are obsessed with Sapir-Whorf to the extreme and think that language color words mean people can't see blue? (This pet peeve gets to stay fresh for me because Japanese is one of the languages that has a word that means both blue and green. It also has words that mean only one or the other, though...) 11mo
shanaqui @Faranae It does have a chapter that touches on Sapir-Whorf, and there it says that obviously people can see and distinguish those colours, and express it when they're given foreign words for them. It does say (and I haven't followed up the source yet) that people from countries with more colour words are quicker to mentally identify certain colours (I'm way oversimplifying this though) under certain test conditions. 11mo
Faranae @shanaqui That sounds very reasonable! 11mo
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