In Polish language we commonly call turquoise "lightblue", so instinctively we'll have the boundary not at the middle of the turquoise, but between the turquiose and green, (i got hue 165, 95% of the population). We also call it "sea-color", but sea is also more culturally associated with blue than green.
Is my blue your blue? (2024)
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Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#372"for you, turquoise is blue." Well no, it's turquoise, that's why we gave it a whole different word.
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.
For many people this is like saying 'for you red is blue'.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#373As other commenters here have noted, I found this interesting but a little frustrating. The second color it asks about is clearly cyan (or turquoise). For me, this is like showing an orange screen and asking if it is red or yellow. I understand that across cultures "orange" does not exist as a distinctly named color (it only got its name in most European languages around the 1500s), but as someone who was trained sin…
People are freaking out about this test like it’s some judgement of their character or something. I just picked “green” or “blue” without thinking. The biggest problem here is that people have wildly uncalibrated monitors that often have color cast tints. I color calibrate my monitors and even my factory calibrated MacBook has a slight green tint. People should also do hue differentiation tests like this one to see i…
People are not freaking out just pointing out stupidity of such test with 2 options only, no need for hyperbole.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#374This makes no sense. It's like asking: "Alice is in Denver. Is Alice in (a) Canada or (b) Mexico?" - Your boundary between Canada and Mexico is at 40° latitude, more southern than 53% of the population.
Your example would only be valid if "blue" and "green" had objective answers for when something is Blue and something is Green and have clear demarcated boundaries. You're switching to a literal boundary example where there are actual lines to be crossed. Colors are a fuzzy continuum; national boundaries, not including fought-over areas like the Sea of Japan, are easy to be in or not.
These days the US border might be a fuzzy continuum ;)
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#375I would love to know if "Cambridge Blue" is actually blue to the average person, because, to me, it's green... [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Blue_(colour)
It's named after Oxford Blue, which is in fact, blue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Blue_(colour)
The Cambridge Rugby blue which pre-dates the Boating blue is also more properly blue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University_R.U.F.C.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#376As other commenters here have noted, I found this interesting but a little frustrating. The second color it asks about is clearly cyan (or turquoise). For me, this is like showing an orange screen and asking if it is red or yellow. I understand that across cultures "orange" does not exist as a distinctly named color (it only got its name in most European languages around the 1500s), but as someone who was trained sin…
the question is if you think this shade of cyan is more green than blue
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#377Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found this an interesting "actually...", not sure why you're being downvoted. Ofc the modern usage is not necessarily a "confusion" because of an older meaning, maybe that's bothering people, but I read it as tongue-in-cheek. I prefer "turquoise" anyway, which is more common in German for blue-greenish colors.
There is no doubt that confusions are the origin of these English words. It is extremely unlikely that any of those who introduced these words in English chose intentionally to use them for other things than for what they had been used for millennia. For a modern user, it is no longer a confusion to use such words in their currently widespread sense. When speaking to others, I also use such words with their current m…
Fair!
Thanks for elaborating. So not tongue-in-cheek at all.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#378I never understood "forced classification" games like this (as an aside, it's also why I always hated Myers Briggs). Maybe it's because I'm somewhere on the spectrum, but it always seems like a dumb, false choice to me. For example, when I saw the second color, "aqua" immediately popped into my mind. Aqua is literally defined as #00FFFF in RGB color space - no red, equal (max) parts blue and green. So it just felt li…
I hereby propose the Turquoise Trolley Problem (TTP): If you say the trolley is blue, it goes straight, where there's a baby in the tracks. If the trolley is green, two grandmas die.
If you say it's neither, the trolley derails ;)
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#379> Your boundary is at hue 164, greener than 94% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue.
No, turquoise is turquoise!!1
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#380As other commenters here have noted, I found this interesting but a little frustrating. The second color it asks about is clearly cyan (or turquoise). For me, this is like showing an orange screen and asking if it is red or yellow. I understand that across cultures "orange" does not exist as a distinctly named color (it only got its name in most European languages around the 1500s), but as someone who was trained sin…
That's very funny to have my exact reaction present in the first comment, I was thinking "that's turquoise" but I do also feel like turquoise is green, like you'd call the Copenhagen copper domes green, and the word verdigris comes from green