In case I need to flagellate myself. Duh.
A friend and I were arguing once whether THIS COLOR was green or blue. I said it was blue, he kept insisting that it was green.
It’s cyan: equal parts green and blue.
I think nofloyd’s idea is correct, that it’s more cultural than anything. I see cyan as a subset of blue. I don’t care that it has a lot of green in it, I can’t bring myself to see it as a subset of green, and certainly not as a separate color in its own right (though I can distinguish it). But if it’s halfway in between, surely either opinion would be logical? When I look at this, I see six different colors: green, yellow, red, white, purple (‘magenta’), and two different types of blues. But I don’t want to hijack the thread so I’ll shut up now.
For some reason I want a shirt that has a fake color sensitivity test field that says nothing at all. Then I can tell people it says shit, and watch them hunt for the “message.”
I must be evil.
Tris
I’m not color blind, but I swear my wife must be hyper color aware. She’ll see shades of difference in colors that look exactly the same to me. I’ve often wondered whether most women have a larger color vocabulary than most men. I didn’t even know what fuscia or sienna were, or instance, until a woman pointed them out to me. To me, they’re all shades of other colors.
Needless to say, I’m not a painter or printer.
Why not print that on the other side? “The box says shit”, or some such thing
There is actually a subset of women who really DO see more colors than the rest of the population. The wiki on colorblindness mentions it. Let’s see if I can sum it up without screw-ups.
Basically, although women carry two X chromosomes only one of those two is active in each cell. One of them shuts down. If a woman carries certain colorblindness genes this effect can result in her having not three different types of light sensitive cones but four - allowing her to see fine distinctions invisible to the normally color-sighted. Ironically, because she is a carrier of these genes, she is more likely to have colorblind children than a non-carrier.
And yet, despite being a deuteranonamolous trichromat, I have been both.
Also, since my mother is a carrier of a defective color sensing gene, she might well be one of those “more colors than usual” people despite spawning a colorblind (more accurately, colorweak) daughter.
From what I got out of my 2 years of Japanese (fluent people feel free to correct me) is that there isn’t really a traditional word for green in Japanese. The word “midori” means green, but a shade that many Western people might call green is called blue (“aoi”) as well as green by the Japanese.
Blue–green distinction in language - Wikipedia mentions the linguistic side of this.
I thought this was generally accepted as a “fact” at least according to male comedians 
As far as I know my color vision is fine, but other people and I don’t agree when it comes to certain shades of pale blue and purple. I see them as blue, other people insist they’re purple. I imagine it must irritate colorblind kids to have people be wrong like that on a larger scale.
The OP’s #2: I suppose I’d grit my teeth and give them an answer. People enjoy asking me stupid questions like that already. “Can I see how your write” is probably closer to the color blind question on an annoyance/rudeness scale than the one that makes me want to punch people: “Does the carpet match the drapes?” Fortunately, the latter is far less common.
[QUOTE=Monty]
.So, I have a question each for the following two groups of the TM:
[ol][li]If you’re colorblind, how do you deal with people asking The Question?[/li][li]If you’re not colorblind, do you succumb to the compulsion to ask The Question?[/ol][/li][/QUOTE]
#1: n/a
#2: Arrange his side of the closet to not clash too horribly or insist that the washer really does eat larger-than-me-sized pastels. Never ask him for his opinion of the blue dress v. the green dress, or to grab my gray jacket, unless I wouldn’t mind wearing the tan one instead.
I am extremely aware of variations in color. He claims that, as a couple, we average out to normal.