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These people really didnt think about how people are going to pronounce their pigment? YInMn - what a monster of a name. In the olden days at least people gave
by tekkk 6y ago
These people really didnt think about how people are going to pronounce their pigment? YInMn - what a monster of a name. In the olden days at least people gave colors great names that were easy to prounounce and provided them personality. Ultramarine, prussian blue.. Even vantablack has a nice rhythm.
It's nice as techinical name, I guess, but I'd hope they have some better brand name they are going by.
- GreenWatermelon 6y agoI decided to pronounce it "Yelenmen"
- triclops200 6y agoThe character after the Y in YInMn is an I (uppercase i), not an l.
- La1n 6y agoOne of the videos in the article has it as Yin Min.
- BossingAround 6y agoIt seems to me like it'd have a Chinese-like pronunciation, that is Yin Min. Tangentially, as a non-native speaker, "ultramarine" has a fairly similar amount of information encoded in the name as "Yinmn"--pretty much zero. So, the two names ("ultramarine" vs "yinmn") are pretty much equivalent to eme, personally. Goes to show that naming things "properly" is difficult (I suspect it's impossible actually).
- adrian_b 6y agoOriginally, "ultramarine" meant something like "imported merchandise", i.e. something brought from the other side (ultra-) of the sea (-marine). It provided the information that this is a foreign pigment that must be better than the lower-quality pigments produced locally (e.g. azurite).
- russellbeattie 6y agoCrayola is calling the crayon made with this color "Bluetiful", does that help? Wikipedia also refers to it as "Oregon Blue, Mas Blue, or Yin Min Blue" so I think it will be commonly called something else. Anyways, you're on HN, you know geeks shouldn't name things, but they do anyways. Think "XBox" as a perfect example.
- TazeTSchnitzel 6y agoCrayola's crayon isn't actually using the YInMn pigment.
- knuthsat 6y agoComing from a language with phonemic orthography it's pretty easy to pronounce.
- JKCalhoun 6y agoI'll propose: Rare Blue.