Colo(u)rs & Cultures

[Tonkyhonk]

Ah sorry, it's a Chinese dialect. The way my mom always described us we're kind of like the hillbillys. =)
Cantonese speakers and Toison speakers can understand each other, Mandarin speakers and Cantonese speakers can understand each other, but Toison and Mandarin speakers think the other is just speaking gibberish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan
this↑ is the closest i could find... if not that, which part of china is it? do you happen to know the original hanzi?
or do you know which group it belongs to out of the major ones?

I only brought it up because languages that we grow up around are thought to have an effect on how we perceive things.

yes, indeed, i believe so.
(but in this particular case, your answers werent too different from others :p)

awww, yeah, that is exactly what we call "hada-iro" i guess... but looks a bit pinky at a glance.
(p.s. is it made in usa?)

ha... for some reason it has english letters saying "pale orange" instead of "flesh".

*edit again*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cr ... yon_colors

Colors have been renamed through the years. In 1958, Prussian Blue was renamed Midnight Blue. The color known as Flesh was renamed Peach in 1962, partially in response to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Indian Red was renamed Chestnut in 1999 due to concern that some children thought the crayon color represented the skin color of Native Americans.

... well?

[Potjeh]

Cape is red in both pics, starvation is grey. There are just 7 colours (red, blue, yellow, green, black, white and grey), everything else is just shades of those. Anyone who disagrees is no man.

I'm Bosnian.

[GrapefruitV]

red
pink

german:
rot
rosa

its very interesting that germans use "rose" for pink in general, though i do see where its coming from and we do have the same term "rose color" too but used only for literaly expressions, as in "rosey cheeks"(positive meaning, healthy and beautiful) or "life of rose color"(very positive meaning as in as beautiful and good as roses).

Rose and pink have the same root in russian too:
роза - rose
розовый - pink
same goes for polish (where we got the word from, I think, but I'm not 100% sure)

Cape is red in both pics, starvation is grey. There are just 7 colours (red, blue, yellow, green, black, white and grey), everything else is just shades of those. Anyone who disagrees is no man.

you're just not manly enough to admit there are only red, green and blue

[Potjeh]

But you need white for red, white and blue.

[Dolby3d]

Red
Magenta
Beige

[ValerieHallaway]

ah yeah, hot pink, that may be the word i was looking for!
anyways, white-people skin color is a bit too pinky to be in our "hada-iro" category maybe i should translate it as "nude" then.
but shouldnt "violet" be a bit more blue-ish?

You tell me.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Crocus_vernus_violet_detail_vdg.jpg

Also.
Flesh.
Totally making me cringe. Makes me think of the Crimson in Terraria, the portal grandmas in cookie clicker, and hulking skin/meat/blood beasts in general.

[borka]

red
pink

german:
rot
rosa

its very interesting that germans use "rose" for pink in general, though i do see where its coming from and we do have the same term "rose color" too but used only for literaly expressions, as in "rosey cheeks"(positive meaning, healthy and beautiful) or "life of rose color"(very positive meaning as in as beautiful and good as roses).

germans use rosa , while rosé is french (rosé is used in german aswell but for a certain kind of wine - Rosé or describe cosmetics colors)
but when it comes to cheeks we use rosig in the same way rosy is used - another example

Tout ne fut pas si rosé
Doch war alles nicht so rosig
But it wasn't all rosy

btw. in our old north german language Plattdeutsch:
rosa - fienrood (feines Rot / fine (subtle) red)
Rose - Roos

rosig in old Middle High German - rōsic

[Tonkyhonk]

But you need white for red, white and blue.

thought you only needed 4 as in cmyk.

@grapefruit and borka,
thanks for interesting rose varieties

You tell me.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Crocus_vernus_violet_detail_vdg.jpg

hmmm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_(color)

Violet is a bright bluish purple color that takes its name from the violet flower

↑ this is the color i usually think of when it comes to flower, violet/sumire, for me.

[ValerieHallaway]

-snip-

Gotcha.
In that case, I'd say magenta is a more accurate descriptor.

[Vespasian]

Magenta
Light purple
Khaki
But im a bit color blind.

Tyrian purple.