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Chromatic Linguistics
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Historical Development
The formalization of Chromatic Linguistics began in the late 19th Century following the observational notes of Dr. Alistair Crome regarding the consistency of color intuition among subjects exposed only to phonetic scripts. Crome’s seminal, though widely disputed, 1888 paper, Wavelengths of the Word, proposed the existence of a universal, though heavily diluted, "Color Resonance Constant" ($K_{\chi}$).
A significant schism occurred in the mid-20th century between the Phonetic Saturationists (who believed col…