Re: CHAT: Orange

In Australia, we say they're Green, Yellow and Red, too. Some pedants
insist on calling the Yellow 'Amber', but I'm not pedantic enough for
that. And yes, I do realise I probably shouldn't spell the colour names
in caps, but who's going to stop me, eh?

Tristan

On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 17:10, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> > Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 2002 07:21:49 +0100
> > From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= <ijzeren_jan@...>
>
> >  --- John Cowan wrote:
> > > Other examples: Polish "orange" covers fewer shades than English
> > > "orange".
>
> > That's true. When I lived in Poland, I once made a remark to
> > somebody about "driving through the orange light". At first, the
> > person whom I spoke to didn't seem to understand what I was talking
> > about; in Poland, they call it "yellow".
>
> Well... traffic lights go green, yellow, red, in Denmark too. Even
> though I'd call the color orange in many cases.
>
> That may be for pedagogical reasons: kids learn the cardinal colours
> first --- 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.
>
> If the Dutch lights go red, orange, green, perhaps it's a national
> thing?
>
> Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)