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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/05/2013 04:15, spike wrote:<br>
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style="color:#1F497D">We had a guy at work, out of the
closet but quietly gay, nobody ever gave him any bother
over it as far as I know. He was giving a pitch once and
pointed to the cells in green, the cells in yellow, the
cells in magenta. So we all started going on, Hey Carl,
what is that color you say? Magennnnnta? What’s the heck
is magennnta, haaarrrharharrr etc. Fortunately he has a
sense of humor too.</span></p>
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When I came out, I noticed that people started to ask for clothes
advice - but then it mostly stopped, since I do have a pretty boring
style (a yellow tie is wild by my standards). In fact, even my
boyfriend (who is in *law*) thinks I need more colour. But it was
hilarious while it lasted.<br>
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However, the right solution for learning exotic colour names is
naming schemes. At KTH, each of the computer rooms had a colour
name. At first it was easy... then cerise showed up, followed by
magenta, vermilion, turquoise and all the others. That way the
engineering students can learn them without any embarrassment
(besides the fact that the student overall of the computer students
is a particularly eye-searing cerise...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://medicinskaforeningen.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/61.jpg">https://medicinskaforeningen.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/61.jpg</a> )<br>
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style="color:#1F497D">So at least I know that one color
outside the usual ten. Or at least the name of it. I
couldn’t pick it out of the lineup, but I have heard the
name.</span><br>
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This reminds me of XKCDs color naming survey<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/">http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/</a><br>
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The real challenge is of course spelling fuchsia.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford University </pre>
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