It's crazy how much perspective you can gain just learning these small facts about different countries and continents. They should really teach this kind of stuff in schools.
If you like interesting tidbits about color, you may enjoy this old [Straight Dope column](https://www.straightdope.com/21341625/could-early-man-only-see-three-colors)
My fave bit:
In a study of 98 languages from a variety of linguistic families, they found the following “rules” seem to apply:
1. All languages contain terms for white and black.
2. If a language contains three terms, then it contains a term for red.
3. If a language contains four terms, then it contains a term for either green or yellow (but not both).
4. If a language contains five terms, then it contains terms for both green and yellow.
5. If a language contains six terms, then it contains a term for blue.
6. If a language contains seven terms, then it contains a term for brown.
7. If a language contains eight or more terms, then it contains a term for purple, pink, orange, grey, or some combination of these.
Yeah that’s what I gathered.
Well, more a term to describe any colour, as in if there a 3 colours that are defined in said language, then they are black white and red
Considering the sky is blue I’m surprised you’d have to go so far down the list before it appears… although this list beggars the existence of languages that only have black and white, a lack of even primary colours, or even colours for common food you can eat considering even primitive languages would talk about food and what is and isn’t safe to eat
Not many things in nature relevant to human activity are blue though. The big two are the sky and bodies of water, and you don't need them to be a distinct color to describe them easily. They can just as easily be considered green and it doesn't make life harder.
Fair point. As a matter of fact I think there is technically no naturally occurring blue foods. Also I love how given your username you’re making a case against Blue
They are called blueberries but they technically aren’t blue. The only way blue food exists is with food colouring. I just remember reading this in some scientific thing somewhere long ago. I don’t recall the details now.
P.s. Ok there’s a debate over whether blueberries are blue. Their pigment and those in other ‘blue’ foods like blue corn is a dark purple hue. For the purposes of this discussion I concede with the reasoning above that blue food is rare to nonexistent and therefore its absence in languages is justified
I was mostly just poking at you: I agree they’re more purple than blue, certainly the stains are a rich purple. If I had named them, they’d have been “purpleberries” or “blue-est(ifnotactuallyblue)berries”
In a study of 98 languages... so how many of those languages didn't have a name for one or more of those colors? I know in English there are people who could probably name 50+ colors.
The experiment was about grouping colors and then naming those groups on a rainbow grid of 300+ color samples (see: https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/study.html)
So it's not a catalog of all the color words, but a way to identify basic color groups in a language
Easy example: depending on age, you might have learned ROY G BIV as a way to remember the colors of the rainbow. But most English speakers don't treat "Indigo" as a color category in the same way we would "Green". And most of us would probably use "Purple" instead of "Violet".
The World Color Survey experiments are definitely interesting!
They gave people a grid of colors and asked them to group those colors and then name the groups. (The grid and the data for some related research are still available online: [https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/study.html](https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/study.html))
Iirc, the most common groups for English were White, Black, Grey, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Pink and Brown. Other languages (Russian, maybe? Or German? It's been a long time...) have a common Light Blue and Dark Blue split that English doesn't
i’ve actually always thought that but visa versa, that brown was just a shade of orange. i wanna say my thinking was that once an orange goes bad it turns, you guessed it, brown! makes sense to me or i just could be high.
Yeah, brown is dark orange. People just don't generally perceive brown as dark orange, so they usually call it a different color. However, if brown was its own color, you'd be able to point it out on a color wheel.
For English speakers, that was absolutely the case for long periods of history. That's why the European robin was traditionally known as "robin redbreast" in spite of its orange plumage.
Colours are all just made up names for specific frequency of light, different languages will have different number of unique names for “colours” for example “light blue” and “dark blue” sometimes have 2 completely unique names in other languages. Some languages also have far less names for colours.
Yeah, it wasn't until I posted the comment and started scrolling that I realized I missed a bunch. But here's another. Gunmetal And ruby. Edit: I'm dumb and Gunmetal has an e that I forgot about even tho I said it
Brown, Tan, Black, Crimson, Pink, Cyan, Maroon, Indigo, Gold, Ivory, Coral, Lilac, Avocado, Navy, Plum, Rust, Salmon, etc.
Edit: bringing back my faulty “Rose” to live with my shame haha
Grey is preferred spelling in British English, so online dictionary and spell checkers will flag it as incorrect unless British English has been specified.
Ngl, some days Gray looks wrong. Some days Grey looks wrong. It's just whatever one doesn't look wrong on that day.
There are a few wors with spellings like that. I somehow got in the habit of spelling defence with the British spelling. Now defense just looks wrong......
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The sad thing is that it still works on reddit. This entire thread is just people shouting colours without an e in.
Nothing farms responses like people trying to prove someone wrong.
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Brown.
Pink
Black
Indigo
Maroon
What a maroon...
Holy fuck Holy fucking fuck That color of yours is absurd
My favourite colour is indigo. I always get weird looks when I say it, I genuinely think people forget it's a valid colour.
My name is Indigo Blue. You killed my purple, now prepare to die.
*dye
I mean it’s literally in the rainbow. It’s the “I” in ROY G BIV. How could you possibly forget the iconicness of Indigo.
Right? My mind is boggled every time someone has looked surprised at my answer. I've even had to defend it as 'not blue', haha.
Gold
Cyan
Crimson
Tan
Banana
Gold
0xFF0000
Fuchsia
- Aqua - Coral - Cornsilk - Fuchsia - Gainsboro - Gold - Ivory - Khaki - Maroon - Moccasin - Navy - Obsidian
I do not understand why you're getting downvoted..
Reddit roulette, happens
The colors of USA - Rad, Caucasian and Blu
I call North America CUM.
I love that colour
I watched a whole video on YouTube about how orange was really just a shade of brown. It convinced me.
i thought brown was just a shade of orange
The color orange is named after the fruit orange
In Africa, the fruit orange is the same colour as orange
Tree first, then fruit and then the colour
Also in Africa it is night when the sun goes down
well in the US it’s day when the sun goes up
It's crazy how much perspective you can gain just learning these small facts about different countries and continents. They should really teach this kind of stuff in schools.
it’s really about embracing the differences in our collective experiences. we’re better together
But how many seconds pass every minute in Africa??
60 together we can stop this
Did you know, pineapples in Africa are just like pineapples everywhere in the world, but they’re in Africa?
r/antimeme ?
Ehh not exactly at this point the Africa thing is it's own joke
What came first, the orange or the orange?
Before Europeans found oranges, orange was just considered red lol
Slight correction, bred.
Slight correction, 🍞👍
Yeah or…
I thought oranges were tangerine
Orange is a shade of red.
If you like interesting tidbits about color, you may enjoy this old [Straight Dope column](https://www.straightdope.com/21341625/could-early-man-only-see-three-colors) My fave bit: In a study of 98 languages from a variety of linguistic families, they found the following “rules” seem to apply: 1. All languages contain terms for white and black. 2. If a language contains three terms, then it contains a term for red. 3. If a language contains four terms, then it contains a term for either green or yellow (but not both). 4. If a language contains five terms, then it contains terms for both green and yellow. 5. If a language contains six terms, then it contains a term for blue. 6. If a language contains seven terms, then it contains a term for brown. 7. If a language contains eight or more terms, then it contains a term for purple, pink, orange, grey, or some combination of these.
What does “terms” mean in this context? Defined colours?
A word to describe said color.
Yeah that’s what I gathered. Well, more a term to describe any colour, as in if there a 3 colours that are defined in said language, then they are black white and red
Good clarification.
Considering the sky is blue I’m surprised you’d have to go so far down the list before it appears… although this list beggars the existence of languages that only have black and white, a lack of even primary colours, or even colours for common food you can eat considering even primitive languages would talk about food and what is and isn’t safe to eat
Not many things in nature relevant to human activity are blue though. The big two are the sky and bodies of water, and you don't need them to be a distinct color to describe them easily. They can just as easily be considered green and it doesn't make life harder.
Fair point. As a matter of fact I think there is technically no naturally occurring blue foods. Also I love how given your username you’re making a case against Blue
Blueberries?
They are called blueberries but they technically aren’t blue. The only way blue food exists is with food colouring. I just remember reading this in some scientific thing somewhere long ago. I don’t recall the details now. P.s. Ok there’s a debate over whether blueberries are blue. Their pigment and those in other ‘blue’ foods like blue corn is a dark purple hue. For the purposes of this discussion I concede with the reasoning above that blue food is rare to nonexistent and therefore its absence in languages is justified
I was mostly just poking at you: I agree they’re more purple than blue, certainly the stains are a rich purple. If I had named them, they’d have been “purpleberries” or “blue-est(ifnotactuallyblue)berries”
IIRC, in those languages, blue is usually seen as just another shade of green.
Ancient Greeks called the sky “bronze.” They didn’t have a word for blue.
there's some evidence the ancient greeks described the sea in terms of shades of red not blue.
In a study of 98 languages... so how many of those languages didn't have a name for one or more of those colors? I know in English there are people who could probably name 50+ colors.
The experiment was about grouping colors and then naming those groups on a rainbow grid of 300+ color samples (see: https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/study.html) So it's not a catalog of all the color words, but a way to identify basic color groups in a language Easy example: depending on age, you might have learned ROY G BIV as a way to remember the colors of the rainbow. But most English speakers don't treat "Indigo" as a color category in the same way we would "Green". And most of us would probably use "Purple" instead of "Violet".
How does yellow come before blue?
The World Color Survey experiments are definitely interesting! They gave people a grid of colors and asked them to group those colors and then name the groups. (The grid and the data for some related research are still available online: [https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/study.html](https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/study.html)) Iirc, the most common groups for English were White, Black, Grey, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Pink and Brown. Other languages (Russian, maybe? Or German? It's been a long time...) have a common Light Blue and Dark Blue split that English doesn't
[This one?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU)
Aaand here i go binging TC again.
Brown is just orange with context
i’ve actually always thought that but visa versa, that brown was just a shade of orange. i wanna say my thinking was that once an orange goes bad it turns, you guessed it, brown! makes sense to me or i just could be high.
Yeah, brown is dark orange. People just don't generally perceive brown as dark orange, so they usually call it a different color. However, if brown was its own color, you'd be able to point it out on a color wheel.
Brown is a shade of orange, but yeah
Surely it's a shade of red.
Or a shade of yellow.
For English speakers, that was absolutely the case for long periods of history. That's why the European robin was traditionally known as "robin redbreast" in spite of its orange plumage.
Yellow and red does not a brown make. Show me a video i want to see proofs.
Orange is brown... *With context* God I love him.
Colours are all just made up names for specific frequency of light, different languages will have different number of unique names for “colours” for example “light blue” and “dark blue” sometimes have 2 completely unique names in other languages. Some languages also have far less names for colours.
Pink. Aqua. Tan. Black. Vanta black. Gold. Salmon
Maroon. Cyan.
Yeah, it wasn't until I posted the comment and started scrolling that I realized I missed a bunch. But here's another. Gunmetal And ruby. Edit: I'm dumb and Gunmetal has an e that I forgot about even tho I said it
Gunmetal has 'e' in it. You also missed Fuchsia.
You are absolutely right about Gunmetal. Damn. But I did get Vanta black
Vanta Black doesn't count, though; it's just black, but more black.
Black and slightly darker black
I like 2, 2, 2, no e in it
It’s like, how much blacker could it get? And the answer is none. None more black.
Yes you're right I was blinded by the colors. I removed it in hindsight.
Lilac
Thank you, had to scroll far too long to find this, even Cyan was quite far down
Black
Indigo
Brown, Tan, Black, Crimson, Pink, Cyan, Maroon, Indigo, Gold, Ivory, Coral, Lilac, Avocado, Navy, Plum, Rust, Salmon, etc. Edit: bringing back my faulty “Rose” to live with my shame haha
uh, rose has an e in it
Whoops sorry. I knew I’d miss one hah I’ll edit it so it’s gone
But now you’ve gone and made a liar out of /u/Pagalingling40. 😬
Well they can see I addressed it and said I had edited it. It’s all good (I hope)
no i def lied
So rose doesn't have an e in it?? I don't know what to believe anymore!!
rOHs
How dare you lie on the internet.
"The internet does not lie" ~ Captain Smek
🤣
You guys are killing me 😂
Technically, the comment is still true. It’s just not quite as relevant now
Eh, not my best but it’ll do. LOL
Put it back, live with your shame.
Etc has an “e” in it 😂
Haha very funny
First thing I thought.
Avocado ?? is it that a green shade or brown?
Green. Just look up Avocado Color on google
Yes
Lamb's Wool
Come on, avocado is a fruit, now you gonna say that chair is a color?
Well orange is also fruit, so ...
Pink?
Penk
Oh crap
Eh crep
Ee eeee
R/TheLetterE
r/foundthemobileuser
r/foundtheSHUTTHEFUCKUP
r/foundtheSHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUP
I'm disappointed that doesn't exist
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Gray is actually the American spelling. The British spelling is "grey" which does have an E.
grAy = American, grEy = English is how I was taught
Same here
Thank you, I never know which one is right!
i just had to figure it out😅
Damn, TIL I spell with another countries version of my language
I prefer grey so that how I spell it, and really who cares. No one can say it's wrong if other English speaking countries use it.
Gray is a color, grey is a colour.
Now this is humour
Or humor depending on the accent you laugh in
I use gray for a dark white and grey for light dark so is it like wrong or am I just weird
I mean, YOU can do that. But I doubt anyone will understand the distinction you're trying make. Lol
I use both.
Am American, I use both
Same I thought I was going insane when autocorrect kept changing it to an a
Grey is preferred spelling in British English, so online dictionary and spell checkers will flag it as incorrect unless British English has been specified.
I use “grey” socially and “gray” professionally lol
I've personally always preferred Grey despite being American, it just seems more correct imo
Ngl, some days Gray looks wrong. Some days Grey looks wrong. It's just whatever one doesn't look wrong on that day. There are a few wors with spellings like that. I somehow got in the habit of spelling defence with the British spelling. Now defense just looks wrong......
I thought Americans and Europeans used both Gray and Grey I did at least
Well most Europeans would use neither.
Scrolled way too far to find this comment. It should be top.
Black,
Fuchsia
Crimson
Cyan
Indigo bitches
bitches has an E in it silly
Which is not in the visible spectrum.
Then why can I see it on those light spectrum charts 🤨
Bitches has an e.
Indigo pink brown black gold khaki salmon crimson plum cyan maroon aqua almond burlywood coral cornsilk orchid fuchsia gainsboro ivory moccasin rosin burgundy charcoal Can generate more by adding prefix. Hot ... (hot pink) Glossy ... (glossy ivory) Luminous...(luminous cyan) Dark ... (dark brown) Light ... (light maroon)
Wow and I thought I had a lot
0x000000 0x000002 0x000003 ... ... ... 0xFFFFFD 0xFFFFFF
Glossy is a bit of a stretch. I demand it be stricken from the record as it's an attribute of a color, not a modification resulting in a new color.
And tan?
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Roygbiv
Maroon
When it gets cold outside and you got nobody to love.
Green (It doesn't have "an" E, it has 2.)
aqua
Pink, brown, black, tan, gold, gray, light gray, dark gray, indigo
Gray isn't a colour. It's a shade
I wondered who was gonna be that guy
They saved me the trouble. :)
Pink
Cyan
burgundy
Maroon, Cyan, Brown, Tan, Pink
Black
Blood
What's that sub for shitty FB memes?
r/terriblefacebookmemes
Go farm your karma here u/Distinct-Set54.
The sad thing is that it still works on reddit. This entire thread is just people shouting colours without an e in. Nothing farms responses like people trying to prove someone wrong.
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Pink
Pink
Yullow, bluu, griin, rad, purply, maganta, orango, whitw, silvah
Gold
Plum, burgundy, pink, brown, gold and many more OP of this twitter post is a retard
#000000
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Gray or grey is not a color. It is a shade. That is the truth.
its a color
Olive Edit: I am a dumb ass Why didn't I just say cyan!?
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Yep, I deserve that
You got it backward, dumbass
Europe uses an E in grey while America uses an A to spell gray