Language is more powerful than we realize. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

According to Fiona McDonald with Science Alert, there's evidence that humans didn't actually

see blue until modern times. Apparently, people tend to group or separate colors in different

ways depending on their language. In lots of languages, blue wasn't considered a separate

color. It was thought of as a kind of green. So many ancient

writers compared the sky to copper and the sea to wine. Even today, Nambia's Hymba tribe

have several words for green but lack a specific word for blue. They also have trouble

seeing it, but they can see clearly shades of green that are invisible to Western eyes.

Look, language is not just a passive tool that humans use to describe the world.

It's a proactive means through which we understand the world. It's not that blue doesn't exist

or that ancient people didn't see it. It's the role of language in shaping how we see and think.

In other words, when James talked about how important the tongue is, he meant it. For the Colson

Center, I'm John Stone Street

with The Point.