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Me:
Turkish> Native langauage
English> Intermediate
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Spanish> Elementary

What about you?]]>
Me:
Turkish> Native langauage
English> Intermediate
German> Elementary
Spanish> Elementary

What about you?]]> http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=4956 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:50:46 +0300 http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=4956 Or What do you suggest me? I want to learn new words and speak English more fluent?]]> Or What do you suggest me? I want to learn new words and speak English more fluent?]]> http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=3615 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:58:03 +0300 http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=3615
Is black a colour?

I like to announce that this forum is strictly for friendly discussion with regards to the abovementioned topic. Please don't do flaming here. Thanks.

Well as a start, people may ask me: Why ask this question? So silly. Actually this question came into my mind just after Directors topic today. I've applied what I know in science and have the following to present:

According to the definition of some online encyclopedias, black is defined as an absence of colour. My own definition of black is a phenomenon which totally absorbs all light shining on it, thus rendering it black. Now, is black considered a colour?

Points raised:

1) In the electromagnetic spectrum, the human eye can ONLY see the visible light part of the spectrum, that is white light consisting of the 7 basic components - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. This is familiar for those science students. Since black is not one of the 7 basic colours, black itself is not a colour. On the other hand, it can be argued that the random combination of certain, if not all, colours together can produce black. But does that mean that we mix colours together to produce something not considered a colour, something we cannot see? If black is a colour, it should be within the visible light spectrum but apparently it is not.

2) Take a black object and a transparent glass for example. In both cases, light from a source does not reflect back to our eye, but for the black object, light is simply absorbed while the transparent glass actually allows light to pass through. However we compare both cases, since both light does not return to us, by right we should see both as identical but instead we see one as black object, another as a transparent glass. Does the future path of the light determine the 'blackness' of an object?]]>
Is black a colour?

I like to announce that this forum is strictly for friendly discussion with regards to the abovementioned topic. Please don't do flaming here. Thanks.

Well as a start, people may ask me: Why ask this question? So silly. Actually this question came into my mind just after Directors topic today. I've applied what I know in science and have the following to present:

According to the definition of some online encyclopedias, black is defined as an absence of colour. My own definition of black is a phenomenon which totally absorbs all light shining on it, thus rendering it black. Now, is black considered a colour?

Points raised:

1) In the electromagnetic spectrum, the human eye can ONLY see the visible light part of the spectrum, that is white light consisting of the 7 basic components - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. This is familiar for those science students. Since black is not one of the 7 basic colours, black itself is not a colour. On the other hand, it can be argued that the random combination of certain, if not all, colours together can produce black. But does that mean that we mix colours together to produce something not considered a colour, something we cannot see? If black is a colour, it should be within the visible light spectrum but apparently it is not.

2) Take a black object and a transparent glass for example. In both cases, light from a source does not reflect back to our eye, but for the black object, light is simply absorbed while the transparent glass actually allows light to pass through. However we compare both cases, since both light does not return to us, by right we should see both as identical but instead we see one as black object, another as a transparent glass. Does the future path of the light determine the 'blackness' of an object?]]> http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=1487 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:53:01 +0200 http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=1487

I usually look at him/her eyes and tell my true feelings about his/her act or keep in silence for a long time.Because when I get angry I'm really heart breaker...

So what about you?]]>

I usually look at him/her eyes and tell my true feelings about his/her act or keep in silence for a long time.Because when I get angry I'm really heart breaker...

So what about you?]]> http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=1143 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:49:50 +0200 http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=1143 http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=1139 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:46:12 +0200 http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=1139 societal awareness, and enhanced interpersonal relationships). Why do you think people decide to go to school?]]> societal awareness, and enhanced interpersonal relationships). Why do you think people decide to go to school?]]> http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=1137 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:37:47 +0200 http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=1137
What do you think about that?]]>
What do you think about that?]]> http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=708 Sat, 03 May 2008 12:00:36 +0300 http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=708 http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=673 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:18:52 +0200 http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=673 just one of the my reasons,what about yours?]]> just one of the my reasons,what about yours?]]> http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=455 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:32:43 +0200 http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=455 language. There is no egg in eggplant
nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor
pine in pineapple. English muffins
weren't invented in England or French
fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies
while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet,
are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we
explore it's paradoxes, we find that
quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings
are square and a guinea pig is neither
from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but
fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce
and hammers don't ham? If the plural of
tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of
booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one
moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make
amends but not one amend, that you comb
through annals of history but not a
single annal? If you have a bunch of
odds and ends and get rid of all but one
of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers
praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables,
what does a humanitarian eat? If you
wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your
tongue?

Sometimes I think all the English
speakers should be committed to an
asylum for the verbally insane. In what
language do people recite at a play and
play at a recital? Ship by truck and
send cargo by ship? Have noses that run
and feet that smell? Park on driveways
and drive on parkways?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance
be the same, while a wise man and a wise
guy are opposites? How can overlook and
oversee be opposites, while quite a lot
and quite a few are alike? How can the
weather be hot as hell one day and cold
as hell another?

Have you noticed that we talk about
certain things only when they are absent?
Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or
a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or
experienced requited love? Have you ever
run into someone who was combobulated,
gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where
are all those people who ARE spring
chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a
fly?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy
of a language in which your house can
burn up as it burns down, in which you
fill in a form by filling it out and in
which an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not
computers, and it reflects the
creativity of the human race (which, of
course, isn't a race at all). That is
why, when the stars are out, they are
visible, but when the lights are out,
they are invisible. And why, when I wind
up my watch, I start it, but when I wind
up this essay, I end it..]]> language. There is no egg in eggplant
nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor
pine in pineapple. English muffins
weren't invented in England or French
fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies
while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet,
are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we
explore it's paradoxes, we find that
quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings
are square and a guinea pig is neither
from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but
fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce
and hammers don't ham? If the plural of
tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of
booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one
moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make
amends but not one amend, that you comb
through annals of history but not a
single annal? If you have a bunch of
odds and ends and get rid of all but one
of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers
praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables,
what does a humanitarian eat? If you
wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your
tongue?

Sometimes I think all the English
speakers should be committed to an
asylum for the verbally insane. In what
language do people recite at a play and
play at a recital? Ship by truck and
send cargo by ship? Have noses that run
and feet that smell? Park on driveways
and drive on parkways?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance
be the same, while a wise man and a wise
guy are opposites? How can overlook and
oversee be opposites, while quite a lot
and quite a few are alike? How can the
weather be hot as hell one day and cold
as hell another?

Have you noticed that we talk about
certain things only when they are absent?
Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or
a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or
experienced requited love? Have you ever
run into someone who was combobulated,
gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where
are all those people who ARE spring
chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a
fly?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy
of a language in which your house can
burn up as it burns down, in which you
fill in a form by filling it out and in
which an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not
computers, and it reflects the
creativity of the human race (which, of
course, isn't a race at all). That is
why, when the stars are out, they are
visible, but when the lights are out,
they are invisible. And why, when I wind
up my watch, I start it, but when I wind
up this essay, I end it..]]> http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=454 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:34:10 +0200 http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=454
cevaplarınızı bekliyorum]]>
cevaplarınızı bekliyorum]]> http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=266 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:14:39 +0300 http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=266 love is thinking about him when he is out kapsama alanı]]> love is thinking about him when he is out kapsama alanı]]> http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=247 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:41:02 +0300 http://www.eltcafe.net/showthread.php?tid=247
How can we improve it? :rolleyes:

Thanks for your comments from now on..]]>
How can we improve it? :rolleyes:

Thanks for your comments from now on..]]>