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One of the things that surprised me after moving to a new country is that some languages don't have words for colours, even now. Colours like "taupe", "beige",
by stevekemp 9y ago
One of the things that surprised me after moving to a new country is that some languages don't have words for colours, even now.
Colours like "taupe", "beige", don't have distinct names in Finnish. The colours obviously exist, but they're called different things.
(I'm gonna ignore the whole craziness associated with giving tins of wall-paint strange names.)
- signal11 9y agoI wasn't really aware that "taupe"[1] was a colour until some Windows theme used that name. Similarly "coral" until it became an HTML colour -- it just wasn't common usage. I suspect a lot of these names originated in the art/fashion world, and entered computing via desktop publishing / UI design pros. [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=taupe https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=taupe