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Interesting fact of the day: There is a theory in various forms that basically goes something like: We literally can not see that which we lack the language to describe. It was largely used as a theory around color and stems from the fact that before we had as many words for colors as we do today people would describe things as if implying they literally couldnt see the colors that lacked words. For example int he Iliad and the Odyssey the water was described as "purple like wine" because we had not yet had a word for blue.

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