134: True Colour (with Kory Stamper)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. by Daniel Midgley

Mar 13, 202602:21:18Science & Medicine

How do you define what blue is? What even IS colour? Turns out, the quest to define colours was happening along with a standardisation crisis and a dictionary crisis at the venerable Merriam-Webster. Lexicographer and au...

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