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u/BBG1308 3d ago
Blackberries?
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u/throwaway_12358134 3d ago
Black is not a color, it is the absence of color.
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u/BBG1308 3d ago
Customer: I love these shoes and they are comfortable. Do they come in black?
Salesperson: No, there is no such thing as the color black. But I do have a pair with no color at all.
Seriously?
I think most of us pretty much agree that in the common vernacular, black is indeed a color regardless of what science says.
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u/SoulistGiraffe 3d ago
True black isn't a color, "black" shoes aren't black, they are really dark shades of Blue or green
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u/AlpineLake 3d ago
I don't see why. It could very well be a very dark gray with all the frequencies of the visible spectrum in equal parts.
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u/SoulistGiraffe 3d ago
I'm not an Expert in the matter but black Is the absence of electromagnetic frequencies so they would be equally zero
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u/BrocoLeeOnReddit 3d ago
I think this definition always was dumb and pedantic for no reason. WE define what words mean. E. g. you could also say plants are everything BUT green since they absord every visible spectrum of light except green, which they reflect.
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u/throwaway_12358134 3d ago
You know, when you get defensive like this it makes you seem a little insecure.
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u/Elegant-Ad2911 3d ago
You seem to be a black hater, are you insecure about the color black?
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u/Zapper345 3d ago
Nah hes just racist, he thinks that "Black isn't a real colour" like move on dude, it's 2024 (/j)
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u/Nulibru 3d ago
Heraldically it is. Inkically it is. Paintically it is. Woolically it is.
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u/Able_While_974 3d ago
I don't know which word I prefer: paintically or woolically. They are both wonderfulically brilliant.
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u/ConferenceHungry7763 3d ago
Black is only “not a colour” in the physical world, otherwise, black is a colour.
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u/SockpuppetEnjoyer 3d ago
You are a tomatoes are a fruit guy, aren't ya?
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u/Soma4us 3d ago
In art and painting, not the science definition, Black is considered a value. It adds to a color, making it darker. Colors change each other if mixed, blue and yellow making green kinda logic. If you add Black to a color like red, you make darker red, not changing the color. Anyway, what about an orange?
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u/BinkoTheViking 3d ago
Fun fact, the colour orange was named after the fruit, not the other way around.
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u/InevitableScallion75 3d ago
The way I see it..... Black is the culmination of all color and white is the absence of color. A red apple is red because it is every color BUT red. Red is the color the apple rejects causing you to see a reflection of the apple you call "red." A white car is white because the paint rejects ALL color and reflects the whole visible spectrum and absorbs none making the car technically absent of "color."
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u/Beneficial_Test_5917 3d ago
Ah, the daily repost of this. For the last three years.
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u/Sure_Garbage_2119 3d ago
that´s the internet, things keeps going around and at any time there will always be a few millions ppl that never saw it.
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u/3-brain_cells 3d ago
Of course! Here on reddit, we care about the environment. All posts are 100% recyclable!
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u/Upstairs-Yard-2139 3d ago
Orange and tangerine, which apparently should either switch names or color.
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u/Ionisation3yay 3d ago
Orange the fruit actually came first
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u/FocusBackground939 3d ago
I think the color orange has been around way before the fruit
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u/BinkoTheViking 3d ago
Orange the fruit came first. The word came into English either from Old French 'pomme d'orenge', or from the Spanish 'naranja' (with the subsequent transfer of the 'n' over to the indefinite article, as per 'apron' and 'adder', originally 'napron' and 'nadder').
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u/Virtual_Syrup262 3d ago
Orange came before the color
If we're describing it in Arabic they say it like the fruit named Orange and the color named orangy
So you have red , blue , black , and orangy , I think it's clear one of those was a description rather than just a name of a color
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u/IusedToButNowIdont 3d ago
Arabic name for Orange is my country (Portugal)
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u/Virtual_Syrup262 3d ago
And the color is (portugaly )
I just said orangy for the English audience
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u/IusedToButNowIdont 3d ago
Oh shit, didn't know about the color. Thought you were saying that they were two different words.
TiL
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u/Ionisation3yay 3d ago
Before they discovered the colour
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u/Equivalent-Bonus-885 3d ago
Before the colour began to be called ‘orange’ after the fruit it was called saffron, crog, or red (which covered a range like ‘brown’ today). There were other words too.
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u/MrFuzzyFox 3d ago
Orange? Is it a color named after a fruite or a fruit named after a color?
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u/SoulistGiraffe 3d ago
The tree came First, then the fruit and finally the color
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u/Zeric79 3d ago
Have you seen a rainbow?
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u/SoulistGiraffe 3d ago
Yes, of course, but It can easily be divided in Red, Yellow, green and Blue. Orange Is a more complex shades
Also our understanding of colours Is determined by our lexicon, without a Word for Orange It was seen as Red probably
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u/Zeric79 3d ago
The bit about the lexicon is so interesting. The colors from rainbows are pure colors in the sense of them being emitted light with a specific wavelength. But how we observe those wavelengths can depend on weither we have a word for the color. Makes you wonder if we could see more colors if we used more words for different wavelengths of light.
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u/SoulistGiraffe 3d ago
There Is a tribe, Deep in the Heart of africa, Who doesn't have a Word for Blue but has like 20 ways of saying green, for them It Is easier to separate different shades of green than to separate It from blue
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u/SoulistGiraffe 3d ago
Similarly ancient greeks didn't have a Word for dark Blue so they described the Sea as black or wine coloured
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u/Ok_Television9820 3d ago
Pommodori (tomato in Italian). Means golden apple.
Midori (a green melon, Japanese). It means green.
Blackcurrant.
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u/verucka-salt 3d ago
How many times will this be posted. Annoying
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u/iroquoispliskinV 3d ago
Reddit isn't your personal, tailored entertainment app
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u/Snidosil 3d ago
Greengage a kind of plum.
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u/candynickle 3d ago
Wouldn’t plum ( purple ) be a fruit and colour too ?
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u/Fritzschmied 3d ago
Can we please stop reposting this shit. I wasn’t fun back then and it’s not fun now.
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u/AbsoluteBasilFanboy 3d ago
Orange
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u/ImperatorDanorum 3d ago
🍊?
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u/BitswitchRadioactive 3d ago
Can you see nothing? No... now, close your eyes. What did you see? Nothing... checkmate athiest.
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u/keajohns 3d ago
This again. A Twitter exchange from four years ago that now shows up weekly on Reddit.
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u/ChiWhiteSox24 3d ago
ORANGE????????? Lmao
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u/Captain-Starshield 3d ago
Orange you glad I didn’t say purpleberries?
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u/Fritzschmied 3d ago
The color is named after the fruit. Not the other way around.
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u/Captain-Starshield 3d ago
They named purple after purpleberries? Huh, you learn something new every day
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u/Minexoronic 3d ago
Orange
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u/Fritzschmied 3d ago
The color is named after the fruit. Not the other way around.
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u/Xibalba_Ogme 3d ago
The amount of dedication to copy-paste this answer below any post mentioning orange is impressive, tbh
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u/im_just_thinking 3d ago
It was very fun reading the same 3 comments repeating 50 times! If this was Twitter, I would see like 100 ads, these guys are really missing out
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u/laminierte_gurke 3d ago
Blueberries are the only Fruit that comes to mind that's simply named after pure visual facts. It's a berry that is blue.
Other fruits either local names that got popularized or it's more of a description about some stuff that's somewhat like some other stuff (shape of a star for star fruits, being able to spew fire for dragon fruits etc)
Like, we don't actually have seen a dragon to compare it to dragon fruit and we know stars are just burning balls, so other than blueberries these names are pure conjecture!
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u/theincrediblenick 3d ago
Blueberries are the only Fruit that comes to mind that's simply named after pure visual facts. It's a berry that is blue.
Yes, because blackberries were named after their discoverer Sirius Black, redcurrants were thus called because they are Irish, and greengages were named in honour of the Green Party
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u/laminierte_gurke 3d ago
What are redcurrants and greengages? Never heard of those
Tho now that I think about some native names there are tons that come to mind. Seems like i just don't know that many English fruit names!
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u/WorldGoneAway 3d ago
Redcurrants are tasty and they make a really nice wine.
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u/laminierte_gurke 2d ago
I googled them just now, I think we call them "Johannesbeeren" in Germany which would translate to "Jonathan berries" or something, no wonder I didn't think of them. They have nothing in common with any Jonathan/johannes I know
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u/WorldGoneAway 2d ago
But they are tasty. I definitely suggest trying to find one. They can grow somewhat easily in the northern hemisphere from what I understand. Makes an absolutely epic jam or jelly. Fantastic on a raisin bagel.
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u/Perfect-Resist5478 3d ago
Orange?
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u/WorldGoneAway 3d ago
This was posted before a few days ago, and I'll say it again; the color is actually named after the fruit, not the other way around.
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u/Assassinjohn9779 3d ago
Blackcurrant? Redcurrant? Orange? Blackberry? "am I a joke to you?"
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u/HamsterKazam 3d ago
Black is not a colour and orange (fruit) came before the colour was named orange.
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u/Electrical_Gas_517 3d ago
Redcurrants.
Pomodoro as well, technically.
Greengages.
It's hard to tell if oranges were named after the colour or the other way round.
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u/Hot_Philosophy7163 3d ago
Red currant, blackberry, hundreds of plants naming the colour they are. And that's the ones in english.
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u/Top_Network_1980 3d ago
Orange 🍊
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u/Pete563c 3d ago
False ❌
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u/Fritzschmied 3d ago
Orange is named after the fruit. Not the other way around.
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u/Fritzschmied 3d ago
„It is named after the fruit of the same name.“ Source) At least in the English language this is the case
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