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In English, generic "red" used to mean something very close to orange (thus red hair, red-breasted robins, etc.). Blood red or rose red were usually called out.
by stan_rogers 5y ago
In English, generic "red" used to mean something very close to orange (thus red hair, red-breasted robins, etc.). Blood red or rose red were usually called out. These days, outside of colour spaces, we distinguish between crimson (cold/bluish) and scarlet (warm/orangish) when it actually matters, and the default "red" is somewhere in the middle, probably because we added orange to the lexicon.
- stooliepidgin 5y agoYou're conflating a range of colors with a single color. "In the middle" is red. Red is red. It's not red-orange. It's not red-blue.
- svachalek 5y agoThis reminds me a lot of "I don't have an accent! YOU have an accent!"
- stooliepidgin 5y agoIf you have something positive, not social media outrage bait, not a red herring, and interesting to contribute to the conversation, let me know.