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'appelblauwzeegroen'? Never heard of it, in my 42 years of being a native speaker of Dutch. Not too many references on the web either, except for a hint that it
by neverheardofit 11y ago
'appelblauwzeegroen'? Never heard of it, in my 42 years of being a native speaker of Dutch. Not too many references on the web either, except for a hint that it might mean 'ugly, undefinable color' (so, not referential).
- anvandare 11y agoYou must be a Netherlands-Dutch speaker then. It's an accepted word in Flanders. :>
- lucb1e 11y agoDutch, 22 years old, haven't heard of it either. Even splitting it up, 'apple blue; sea green' does not make any sense to me. Well sea green, maybe a bit, but not really in combination with the rest. Since it's a composite word* you can't find it in a dictionary, so I can't really check whether it really exists. * One word made out of multiple, like the English "car mechanic" would become "automonteur". Though automonteur is an example common enough to have its own entry: http://www.woorden.org/woord/automonteur http://www.woorden.org/woord/automonteur Edit: as per this comment[1], I've ran it past a Belgian guy: the word seems to be Flemish indeed. He knows it as "a color between green and blue". [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9916562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9916562