The Color Blue Until Modern Times, By Loria

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In the article, “No one could see the color blue until modern times,” Loria writes how blue was not used to describe objects until more modern times. The author traced the use of each color in a language and culture and saw a pattern of the emergence of the use of each color. Black and white were the first colors to appear, and blue was the last to appear. The sky and ocean were not described as blue and used other colors and words to describe the color. I believe just because we did not used the word “blue” to describe things does not mean we did not see the color or did not think. I think as time has gone on, we have developed more terms to describe the different shades of color we see. Now when one describes a color, one can use other terms

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