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Test your knowledge of blue vs green.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

This was very interesting, thanks. I've read somewhere that some cultures don't differentiate between blue and green, and actually have one word that covers shades of both.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

In Japanese you call a traffic light's green blue instead, and early fruit or immature people are called blue or bluish.

Also, Spanish and Portuguese got their "blue" word from Arabic: Azul, which in reality it would be closer to Azure than blue, but that's because it came from lapis lazuli-made dyes for ceramics.

~Note: I might misremembered something from the previous statement, buyers beware.~

Yep, I got it right, originally from Persian lapis lazuli for the dye. Somehow the other Romance languages use a different word for blue but kept a word for the color azure, it could well be that it got introduced through the Iberians.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks for fact-checking!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I've heard that early languages also call red and orange fruits the same color or something but I couldn't find the source.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Pink was also covered by red. I believe the name for pink comes from the plant group Dianthus, which includes carnations. They were a popular adorment worn by men on their suits at weddings for a period of time, during which probably made the colour reference familiar to most people and then became the norm (Hopefully that's all correct, that's what I understand at least!).

There also exist 'pinking scissors' for cutting those trianglar jagged edges to fabrics. The term 'pinking' refering to the Dianthus flower petals that have a jagged edge.

So pink was a shape rather than a colour originally!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I think orange is a relatively new "color"

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yes, the color is named after the fruit, not the other way around!

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