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gumby271yesterday at 11:04 PM5 repliesview on HN

"for you, turquoise is blue." Well no, it's turquoise, that's why we gave it a whole different word.


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mavamaartentoday at 6:24 AM

Haha I got "for you, turquoise is green" and I was like... Yeah, is it not?

throw0101cyesterday at 11:24 PM

> Well no, it's turquoise, that's why we gave it a whole different word.

For some people "pink" does not exist as a concept, it is "light red". In English we talk about "light blue", but an Italian may talk about azzurro (galazio (γαλάζιο) in Greek; kachol (כחול) in Hebrew).

A bit of fun with brown:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU

muzaniyesterday at 11:15 PM

This is the first time I realized that turquoise is the gray area.

Grimblewaldyesterday at 11:34 PM

Agree, this seemed silly. It seems to be more a question of "would you say turquise is blue or green?" Rather than a question of our blues match. Better imo would be to ask something like paired colours and pick the "more blue" one. Cool idea for a website, but imo poorly formulated.

TZubiriyesterday at 11:11 PM

But turquoise can be a blue, just because we have a specific word, doesn't mean more general words are invalieated or made as specific.

For example, things can be small or big, a mouse is small, if you refine the vocabulary to include 10 size words, and the mouse is now minuscule, it is still small.