Re: More food

Barry Garcia wrote:

> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >Why red? 'Red' is usually associated with communist or socialist
> >movements,
> >who usually have don't have a problem with Greens or environmental
> >activism
> >in general.  (The Soviet Union had a horrible environmental record, but
> >that is
> >neither here nor there for purposes of allegiance.)
>
> Couldn't it just be as simple as: cut both open and you see red :) (like
> Clive Barker's quote for his "books of blood": "Everyone is a book of
> blood, when opened, they're red (read)" (something like that)). The green
> could mean naivety?
No, I know what the Green's for:  for the environmentalists, it's the usual
name for political parties which stress protecting the environment, the
strongest of which that comes to mind is the German "Die Grünen" (The
Greens).  For the Esperantistoj, it's the color of their standard organizational
flag, just traditionally.  I don't think there's any connection between the two,
but I'm not sure why the E-oj chose green.

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Tom Wier   |     "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero."
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