Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

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