> Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
>> Torquoise is a fancy name for bluish greens and greenish blues. Beige
>> is a species of brown. Aqua is Latin for water - I'm not even sure
>> what colour it's supposed to refer to.
>
> "Aqua" is short for "aquamarine" and is similar to turquoise: the color
> whose focus is in the overlap between blue and green.
>
> There's a notorious stereotype that women are more discriminating in
> color names than men, at least among anglophones (possibly reinforced by
> the much higher rate of red-green color-blindness among men). My wife,
> for example, insists that aqua is no more a kind of blue (or green)
> than orange is a kind of red (or yellow)
>
> --
> "While staying with the Asonu, I met a man from John Cowan
> the Candensian plane, which is very much like
> jcowan@reutershealth.com ours, only more of it consists of Toronto."
>
http://:www.ccil.org/~cowan --the unnamed narrator of Le Guin's
> Changing Planes
>