eli5: Why is it impossible to imagine new colors?

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eli5: Why is it impossible to imagine new colors?

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Brown is just dark orange. But English speakers don’t give light blue a separate name, while Russian speakers do — it’s as separate a color as orange is for us. OPs question is a language question, not a visual or perception question.

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