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(non native English) How does that work when you learn a new word and then you see it everywhere in the following future time? I scanned a color yesterday, it

(non native English) How does that work when you learn a new word and then you see it everywhere in the following future time? I scanned a color yesterday, it said, perennial color (I just wanted to determine if it was green or yellow). Googling it did not make it much clearer but I now know it has to do with plant colors :)

kfrzcode 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader%E2%80%93Meinhof_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader%E2%80%93Meinhof_effect
- iamcurious 7y ago
  Contrast with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
nerdponx 7y ago
plant colors That's unfortunately not correct. A "perennial" plant grows back every year and does not need to be planted again. An "annual" plant needs to be planted every year. The word "perennial" comes from the Latin "per annum", meaning "through the year", in the sense that the plant does not die part-way through. The word "annual" also comes from the Latin "annum", in this case meaning that it needs to be re-planted "annually", i.e. "yearly". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perennial#Adjective https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perennial#Adjective As a native speaker, whenever I encounter a word I don't know, I find it helpful to look up its etymology, which helps me remember what it means: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=perennial https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=perennial
- beat 7y ago
  Or as I like to say, English can absorb words from any other language, simply by mispronouncing them.
- mobilemidget 7y ago
  thanks, been very informative. I'm still a bit puzzled how perennial relates to a color, the app literally stated 'perennial color' in the end, I settled on green :)
  - nerdponx 7y ago
    Can you give more context? It could be metaphorical.
    - mobilemidget 7y ago
      it's a pair of jeans of my daughter, her mother said, have her wear the yellow pants... I spend hour searching and I found a pair of lime green pants :)
dkarl 7y ago
I scanned a color yesterday, it said, perennial color As a native English speaker, I have no idea what "perennial" means as a color. I think maybe the program you are using to scan the color is meant for matching paint colors? Because of the large number of different shades of paint available, and the smaller number of color names that have meaning in English, paint colors have to be given made-up names that don't mean anything outside the context of the naming scheme used by a particular paint company. When a company sells eighty different kinds of green, they have to be creative to think up enough names. I'm sure they picked "perennial" because most plants are green and perennial is a word related to plants. There's no other relationship between "perennial" and a color.
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kfrzcode 7y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader%E2%80%93Meinhof_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader%E2%80%93Meinhof_effect

iamcurious 7y ago
Contrast with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

nerdponx 7y ago

plant colors That's unfortunately not correct. A "perennial" plant grows back every year and does not need to be planted again. An "annual" plant needs to be planted every year. The word "perennial" comes from the Latin "per annum", meaning "through the year", in the sense that the plant does not die part-way through. The word "annual" also comes from the Latin "annum", in this case meaning that it needs to be re-planted "annually", i.e. "yearly". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perennial#Adjective https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perennial#Adjective As a native speaker, whenever I encounter a word I don't know, I find it helpful to look up its etymology, which helps me remember what it means: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=perennial https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=perennial

beat 7y ago
Or as I like to say, English can absorb words from any other language, simply by mispronouncing them.
mobilemidget 7y ago
thanks, been very informative. I'm still a bit puzzled how perennial relates to a color, the app literally stated 'perennial color' in the end, I settled on green :)
- nerdponx 7y ago
  Can you give more context? It could be metaphorical.
  - mobilemidget 7y ago
    it's a pair of jeans of my daughter, her mother said, have her wear the yellow pants... I spend hour searching and I found a pair of lime green pants :)

dkarl 7y ago

I scanned a color yesterday, it said, perennial color As a native English speaker, I have no idea what "perennial" means as a color. I think maybe the program you are using to scan the color is meant for matching paint colors? Because of the large number of different shades of paint available, and the smaller number of color names that have meaning in English, paint colors have to be given made-up names that don't mean anything outside the context of the naming scheme used by a particular paint company. When a company sells eighty different kinds of green, they have to be creative to think up enough names. I'm sure they picked "perennial" because most plants are green and perennial is a word related to plants. There's no other relationship between "perennial" and a color.

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