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Re: CHAT: Orange

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 16:46
Nik Taylor wrote:
> >Christophe Grandsire wrote: > > 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. > >Well, in *English*, indigo IS a kind of blue, whereas orange is not a >kind of red. But, in some languages (like Uatakassi :-) ), orange *IS* >a kind of red. > > > Blue stops on the spectrum where indigo begins. > >Interesting. You actually perceive indigo as separate from blue? > >I, on the other hand, used to perceive pink as a kind of red. In fact, >I still see it as being closely related to red. I still don't really >think it really deserves to be called a distinct color, at least, not as >much as orange or green or whatnot.
I do usually think of pink as a separate colour, but I agree it's less of an "independent" colour than is, say, orange.
> >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.
The classical list's red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. On a good rainbow, I expect to see red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. I guess those six are the primary colours, as far as my mind is concerned. Brown and pink are kind of semi-primary, black and white aren't proper colours and the rest are just nuances. Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com