Re: CHAT: Indigo (was: Orange)

> > To me, for instance, there is a huge difference
> between sky blue and
> > dark
> > blue, and I am still frustrated for not having
> seperate words for it. We
> > do
> > have pink and lilac to go with red, why not
> something to go with blue?
>
> Lilac with red?!!! Although by stretching a little
> far, pink could be
> considered as having strong affinities with red,
> lilac is at the opposite end
> of the spectrum, with affinities with violet!
> Decidedly, this subject is even
> more surprising than I thought. People seem to make
> really strange associations
> about colours...
Personally, I would say that lavendar is more violet,
and lilac is leaning in the direction of red, but
still mostly violet.

This is kendra, by the way--my refrigeratedcake mail
adress is misbehaving amazingly, it won't send
anything to conlang and only gives me my conlang mail
once every few days. Frustration >:| Hopefully this
adress will actually SEND my mail. -_-' I wrote a big
response to this thread, and it seems to have been
eaten:

> My definition of "mauve" (I don't know if you have
it in English too, if
not
> I'm talking French here :)) ) is entirely personal
and has nothing to do
with
> the actual value the majority of people give to it.
For most of them,
"mauve"
> is a kind of light purple. For me, it's a kind of
pinky purple. I don't
know
> where I got that one, but I can't get rid of it. I
just associate "mauve"
with
> it and nothing else.
Mauve to me is kind of like a dark rosy purple. O_o
Most of my color
associations
come from crayons :)

Traffic lights go red-yellow-green in america too, or
at least California. I
wouldn't call the middle light (a.l. here)orange. I'd
call it yellow-orange
if you made
me, but to me it's still in the realm of yellow.
I've noticed people will disagree with colors if it
matters but otherwise
not too
much (IE to my sister, "Why are you wearing pink pants
and a red shirt?"
"No,
they're both red!" The pants were very pink. :P)
As for colors, I know people who STILL can't name the
primary colors, or who
think it's red-yellow-green (from the lights no doubt
;) or red-green-blue
(rgb),
in fact I find it's as difficult to explain to some
people that orange (for
example) is red
and yellow as it is to explain to them why p and b are
related.

> "Mauve" is very much a colour name in English.  The
> > word is the name of an artist (what's it called
when a
> > word comes from a person's name?) and the school
of
> > art that evolved around him.
Epigram? (not sure off te top of my head)

> The first time I ran into indigo in the rainbow was
on
> a children's science programme on public TV--They
made
> an acrostic mnemonic, a made-up name of Roy G. Biv
to
> remember the order of the colours in the spectrum.
> But at the time I suspected that they slipped in
> indigo to make it pronounceable, because I couldn't
> justify it with my crayon box.  I considered
> "blue-violet" to be indigo, and it was much darker
> than the "violet".
There was an "Indigo" on rainbow brite, too. (As I
venture
way off topic.) Yeah, I hardly ever see anything
referred
to as indigo either.

> And as for the rainbow, how on Earth do they get 7
colors out of it?  I
> can only see, at most, 5 - red, orange, yellow,
green, blue, and of
> those, orange I rarely see.
Do you mean a real rainbow (the ones you see in the
sky?)
It probably has something to do with prisms, which
probably
split the light into more...uh...vivid...things,
(I'm sick, sorry for my bad writing)
 though I don't happen to have one handy to check the
existance
of orange.
Actually, of those, I have the hardest time seeing
green in a real
rainbow.

(Bleh. I'm going to unsubscribe from the ml on my
other adress due to its flakiness. Sorry :|)

-kendra

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