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Re: CHAT: Orange

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 4, 2002, 16:45
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>En réponse à Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>: > > > > > That may be for pedagogical reasons: kids learn the cardinal colours > > first > >??? What do you mean by "kids learn the cardinal colours first?" I'm sorry, >but >it's something I don't understand. You don't learn colours at school. You >already know them before you arrive at school, and there you only learn to >decompose them. But using colour names is a matter of everyday use that >children master much before they arrive at school. > > --- and traditional: I'm not sure the colour name orange was > > that well established when the first traffic lights went up (~1947), > > and calling it red-yellow would be asking for trouble. > > > >You mean the word "orange" didn't exist before?
I can't speak for Denmark, but here across the strait "orange" is a young word, and, as far as I can tell, also the concept of it being a separate colour. The older designation _brandgul_ "fire yellow" would seem to indicate that.
>in how many colours did you cut >the rainbow then? (the 7 colours of the rainbow are extremely traditional, >in >France at least, and imply that "orange" was already well known a long time >ago. I thought it was a European thing)
First time I ran across the idea that there's seven colours in the rainbow was in a school book which claimed that, actually, there are only six colours in it - indigo being a kind of blue. Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

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Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>
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