Re: CHAT: Indigo (was: Orange)
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 10, 2002, 9:01 |
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On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 13:58, a. koch wrote:
> Hearing a colour called "Lilac" absolutely confuses me. Granted my
> job is at a plant nursery and i'm used to explaining to people every
> day that there are multiple varieties of lilac and that the old
> fashioned purple are a different colour than the dwarf korean lilac,
> etc, etc...Still though, I have NEVER heard of a colour called
> "lilac"
"I should be so lucky ..." In Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness In The Sky", the
which I am currently reading - there is a "colour" called "Plaid".
Wesley Parish
> That's immensely confusing. *shrug*
>
> -Aleks
>
> >>En réponse ŕ Maarten van Beek <dungeonmaster@...>:
> >>> Well, off course the whole thing with colors is, that there are a
> >>> infinite
> >>> number of hues on the visible spectrum, and it is just a matter of
> >>> taste or
> >>> convenience in how much colors they are split up. Fot everyday
> >>> purposes, six
> >>> or seven is about enough, but for more specific things, people need
> >>> more
> >>> accurate classifications. Someone who works with colors often
> >>> (painter,
> >>> fashion designer) will hoave a better eye for differences in color.
> >>
> >>Completely agree.
> >>
> >>> 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...
> >>
> >>Christophe.
> >>
> >>
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
> >>
> >>Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.
>
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