Re: CHAT: Orange

En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

>
> 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.
>
Strange... In France we have a town named Orange (yes, it is the one which gave
its name to the Royal family of the Netherlands), and its official colour is
orange since the town exists. And it's more than five centuries old...

>
> 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.
>
Grr... I hate this kind of remarks. Saying that indigo is a kind of blue is
like saying that orange is a kind of red or green is a kind of blue. The fact
that the Japanese didn't have a separate word for green and blue (both being
aoi) doesn't mean that green and blue are the same colour, nor that the
Japanese can't make the difference (they can, as well as anybody else). Indigo
is *not* a kind of blue. Blue stops on the spectrum where indigo begins. That's
the definition of the colour and no other. What you perceive is something else,
and you may not perceive the difference between blue and indigo, or just
learned the word so late that you're used to call "blue" what in reality should
be called "indigo". Yet indigo exists as a separate colour and it is unfair to
put it down as "a kind of blue". It's not a kind of blue to me. To me it's
simply the colour that goes between blue and purple (which are not connected to
me), just like green goes between yellow and blue or orange between red and
yellow.

Christophe.

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