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English is weird
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Linds on 18 Sep 2012, 21:34 ---This has stopped really being about English being weird and is going into color theory, but whatevs. I like color theory. :-D
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No, we're talking about color names - I think that qualifies as "English is weird". Other languages do color names differently. The Russian words for "red" and "beautiful" come from the same root...
BeoPuppy:
And that root is communism?
Elysiana:
Linds, what I meant was that if you tell a painter to use red, they'll use one version, and if you tell a graphic artist to use red, they'll use another, etc. Red is different depending on what you do. If a client told me to use red, I'd use 0AA0 without hesitation - anything else is not just plain old "red". And your example on the right, which you call magenta, is something totally different to me - magenta to me is 0A00, no yellow whatsoever.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: BeoPuppy on 19 Sep 2012, 05:20 ---And that root is communism?
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Krahss, i you must know. Krahssnee for red, krahssivoi for beautiful.
Lines:
--- Quote from: Elysiana on 19 Sep 2012, 05:26 ---Linds, what I meant was that if you tell a painter to use red, they'll use one version, and if you tell a graphic artist to use red, they'll use another, etc. Red is different depending on what you do. If a client told me to use red, I'd use 0AA0 without hesitation - anything else is not just plain old "red". And your example on the right, which you call magenta, is something totally different to me - magenta to me is 0A00, no yellow whatsoever.
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Ah. Missed that. Also I didn't mean to say there was yellow in magenta, because there isn't. :lol: That was just a clarification of why magenta, pink, and red aren't the same.
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