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Colour spectrum-inverting lenses

People who learn language while wearing colour spectrum-inverting glasses use colour words appropriately. The absence of the usual semantic hookup to the world is irrelevant to their linguistic competence as they use the terms correctly.

Richard Sharvy, 1983.
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