So red is my favorite color. But when you're nobody … nobody cares what colors you like (except close family and friends
). Blue is Jay-Z's favorite color which is important because … he's
Jay-Z or Jay Z!! (Used to have a dash, now his name doesn't have a
dash.) Here's a question that never occurred to me and bet Jay Z never thought about it either.
Remember the dress that broke the internet? Well, once that went viral, people started talking about colors and the science behind how we perceive the color blue. Kevin Loria went beyond that by trying to figure out the history of our perception of the color blue.
Look
up! The sky is blue. Gonna take a wild guess. The color blue is
probably the same age as the sky. Click the link for the
answer. According to the writer of the article found at cloudhax.com, ancient civilizations did not have a word for the color “blue” in their languages. Interestingly enough, this is the order in which words for colors appeared in human languages : first there was black and white, then red, then yellow and green, and last of all, blue.
That's fascinating.
Not quite convinced the research produced the true findings.
But since it's not a matter I'd care to probe any further … in the words of the wise guy philosopher … Aw! Forget about it!
Content first published on PersonaPaper, April 8, 2015.
Blue ribbon is in 20th century still a synonym of high quality and is typically given to winners of different competitions, for instance in sport, but also in culinary or at certain fairs. Did you know the most prestigious colleges like Oxford and Cambridge are sometimes called blue brick universities?
