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Re:The sea was never blue by marcosdumay on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @04:37PM (#14905071)
We still have a huge number of colors that don't have names.

Blue is not a color that used to appear often on daily objects, and naming the sky's color is quite a useless act.

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Re:The sea was never blue by dboreham on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @07:28PM (#14906472)
I discovered that there were roughly three times as many colo[u]rs in the USA vs the UK when I moved 20 years ago. But thanks to globalization I bet they have Aqua and Taupe in Blighty now...
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Re:The sea was never blue by stevekemp on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @09:20AM (#14910297)
Move to Finland, there are far fewer colour-names there!

(UK definitely has taupe these days, "aqua" sounds like the kind of name a paint-salesperson we use!)

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Re:The sea was never blue by vacri on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @01:55AM (#14908228)
> naming the sky's color is quite a useless act.

The sky's colour varies greatly. Blue, blue-white, white, light grey, dark grey, yellow, red, purple, black-with-whitish-pinpoints. Probably more, but those are just the ones off the top of my head.

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