Re: CHAT: Orange
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 10, 2002, 21:16 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> But scarlet and crimson are specific terms which refer first to a
> thing and then to its colour.
Scarlet and crimson are shades of red. Any object can be called
"scarlet" or "crimson" if it's that color.
> I don't think so. You can go continuously from dark blue to light blue simply
> by lightening it up. You cannot do that between red and pink.
Sure you can. Ever mix something red in with your whites in the
laundry? Turns the whites pink, that is, a mixture of red and white.
:-)
> Natlangy note :)) : Purple and violet are different colours in English?
Well, violet's a shade of purple, at least, to me.
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