Even better than that is this series of blog posts, which talks about color identification across languages, the way that color-space is in a sense “optimally” divided by basic color words, and how children develop a sense for naming colors:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-i/ http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-ii/
Even better than that is this series of blog posts, which talks about color identification across languages, the way that color-space is in a sense “optimally” divided by basic color words, and how children develop a sense for naming colors:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-i/ http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-ii/