Ben Humphreys

Computational linguistics researcher at Kyoto University, focussing on machine translation. Also learning Japanese, Korean, French and other badassery.
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September 2, 2011 at 9:44am
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BBC Horizon: Do you see what I see? The Himba tribe

The second half covers the Himba tribe whose language includes only 4 colour terms. An experiment they conduct seems to indicate that language somehow affects people’s abilities to differentiate colours.

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