color blind == illiterate! 31 May, 2007 at 10:13 am
so, just read a post about “Kromofons” over at Stroller Derby …
It’s an alphabet of COLOR! woohoo! i am totally screwed here :o
It’s important to understand that there are 3 (there were 4) types of “color disfunction”:
- Red Green
- Green Blue
- Blue Yellow
- Red Yellow
You actually won’t find anything about red-yellow (and I won’t garauntee that that’s what it really is, green-yellow sounds more likely, to me) b/c it apparently got deleted from memory about 5 years ago, give or take. How do I know? B/c a few years ago I was looking at all this stuff about color issues, and I had 3. I’m missing blue-yellow, which means I have the fourth one. which doesn’t exist anymore :o
Color-based alphabet? mmmm, it’s like audio commentary for the deaf! closed captioning for hte blind! IT’S EVIL! EVIL i tell you!
Really funny. Sorry I am just getting to you.
The reaction has been phenominal !
I am very color-blind, and I assure you, spend a little time and you can see the diferrence between them all.
True color-blindness is either red-green or blue-yellow. Those are the two types of color cones that we possess.
I have an idea for a colorblind alphabet that only we will be able to see. It is based on the test with all the small circles of color. We see a lady, and the rest of the world sees a picture of England. Anyway, they can’t see the lady ! So applied properly, we could read a sign, that normals would overlook.
Lee