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Originally Posted by Not Afraid
You know, there are more words in the English language to describe colors other that green, blue, red, yellow, brown, black and white.
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Of course there are. I just don't use them. 8 is an exaggeration but unless a highly technical conversation requires specificity a relatively small number will do. And I generally know what color is meant by the fancy names. I'm mostly be cantankerous.
But I do get annoyed when I say "that is orange" and the response is "no its not, it is tangerine." Besides, it eventually gets to something like the hyper-genretization of music. Just converse in wavelengths or CMYK values and then at least everybody can agree with absolute certainty on what the color means.
I blame Sherwin Williams and their desire to be able to trademark color names.