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1. Chromatic Linguistics

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   A critical, often troubling, finding in the field is Affective Chroma Decay (ACD). ACD describes the quantifiable weakening of the inherent color association of a word as its semantic content becomes increasingly abstract or emotionally blunted through overuse or translation into less pictographic systems.
   For example, the Proto-Indo-European root for 'justice' ($\text{*dewos-}$) exhibited a strong $\lambda \approx 485 \text{ nm}$ (a vibrant azure) in recovered acoustic reconstructions. However, modern English derivations of 'justice' show a near-total collapse of this spectral signature…