Comments on Profile Post by Thad E Ginathom

Now I can't visit all you guys in USA, and you can't visit me in India.

It's - Oh bats or armadillos!

@Hrodulf it's PANGOLINS!

But yeah there's a possibility my entire region, not just city, might enter lockdown soon. Bit nightmarish. Store shelves all bare last grocery run.

@Lyander oh, you're right! In my native language pangolins and armadillos are called by the same word. Interesting!

I was kidding! It doesn't make a difference really what you call them, sorry if it came across that way.

But yeah, how they have the same word in your language reminds me of how blue and green were the same colour in loads of older languages. The development of these things interests me.

Blue and green are the same colour in English: it's called turquoise!

Oh /Pangolins!/ sounds too nice.

My granny had a stuffed armadillo.

Haha, not so much there being a color for the unified, but the lack of distinction between the two. It's been a fascinating thing to read up on:

https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-didn-t-see-the-colour-blue-until-modern-times-evidence-science

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language?wprov=sfla1