Test your knowledge of blue vs green.

  • Rokin@lemm.ee
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    13 days ago

    This was very interesting, thanks. I’ve read somewhere that some cultures don’t differentiate between blue and green, and actually have one word that covers shades of both.

    • Theo@lemmy.worldOP
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      13 days ago

      I’ve heard that early languages also call red and orange fruits the same color or something but I couldn’t find the source.

    • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
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      13 days ago

      In Japanese you call a traffic light’s green blue instead, and early fruit or immature people are called blue or bluish.

      Also, Spanish and Portuguese got their “blue” word from Arabic: Azul, which in reality it would be closer to Azure than blue, but that’s because it came from lapis lazuli-made dyes for ceramics.

      ~Note: I might misremembered something from the previous statement, buyers beware.~

      Yep, I got it right, originally from Persian lapis lazuli for the dye. Somehow the other Romance languages use a different word for blue but kept a word for the color azure, it could well be that it got introduced through the Iberians.