Vision Post: Colors and Latin Class

  

  In high school I started to take latin, I did it because I wanted to read about myths in latin, yes I was a nerd. The first year I took it was during covid, which made it difficult to learn so in my sophomore year it became in person. My latin teacher quickly learned her entire class which was made up of me and a bunch of my friends were easily distracted, confused, and lost most of the time. So when we started getting more complicated translations she would color code it based on case or tense. Only two of which I can remember, purple was ablative and red was accusative. I took latin, this does not mean I was good at it. This scratched a part of my brain that liked organizing things, so I would color code along with her. But one of my friends was color blind and made jokes about the present tense being old man grey vs cloud grey. So to adapt my teacher started doing different types of lines, squiggles, zig zag, dots, or circling the word so my friend wouldn't be left out or forced to figure out which shade of grey is the accusative case. 

    In Ackermans book she brings up the fact that humans only see 150 colors out of 200 possible colors. I

bring up my friends color blindness because I think it could be possible the 50 colors missing are the one thats only color blind people can see. I always thought there were more colors and there are new colors being made all the time or colors being named differently. I learned from watching a shopping channel with my grandmother that a white top is actually "pearl" top, or other weird color names. There are so many shades of colors from light to dark and we can't just say a color is super light yellow, we say pastel or if you're on the shopping channel pale sunshine. I think the thing about color that is so interesting is that it can be different depending on who you ask. The six basic colors are easy to recognize, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, or eight if you're like me you include to indigo and violet to be special. But in those colors there are different shades and mixes. I color to relieve stress and I have really nice markers with funny names for their colors like "mulberry red" or "eggnog yellow". But I still use it as red or yellow, I want to know what are the 150 colors humans are able to see. My marker pack is 216 which is already more than what Ackerman pointed out. Are colors named by humans? Could this means we only have 150 colors because humans have decided 150 colors are all they can see? But the people who name the colors can see them, my friend often believed that his colors even though they are different shades of grey doesn't mean colors are only bright. We call black, white, grey and brown colors but they aren't bright and colorful they are natural. Color blindness is a wide range and it dulls the colors from what I have been told from my friend. Maybe people who decide what colors are should have these people come in so that they can show that there are more colors then they see.