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Maroon is dark red/purple. Indigo is dark blue/purple. Olive is dark green.
by jessriedel 7y ago
Maroon is dark red/purple. Indigo is dark blue/purple. Olive is dark green.
- yreg 7y agoYet I bet brown has dramatically more hits in the English corpus than maroon, indigo or olive (colour).
- scotty79 7y agofur-poo-bark color was probably more useful to name.
- DonHopkins 7y agoQ: What's brown and sticky? A: A stick!
- jessriedel 7y agoYes, but if you're trying to rebut me then you're mixing up the causality. "Brown" has more hits because people think about it differently (e.g., it's very frequently in their environment). The existence/prevalence of the name "brown" didn't cause people to think about it differently.
- peteretep 7y agoYes, and you also can’t get an olive-coloured light, which is the whole point of the video.
- jessriedel 7y agoMy point was that we gave names to these other colors, so that doesn't seem to be the reason people think brown is a "real" color more than maroon and olive.