Why Japan Has Blue Traffic Lights Instead of Green

Re:Why Japan Has Blue Traffic Lights Instead of Green by marcosdumay on Monday October 23, 2023 @12:02PM (#37987615)

> If there's a language in the world where the color and the fruit aren't the same word, I've yet to learn it.

The fruit has the color orange when it's ripe. It's probably one of the most orange things you'll see on nature.

But most people don't even eat it ripe (throwing it away before that point), and the association between the fruit and the color just flies over a lot of people's heads. And yeah, the internals of most of them are yellow.

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Re:Why Japan Has Blue Traffic Lights Instead of Green by NoMoreNicksLeft on Monday October 23, 2023 @12:43PM (#37988169)

If the fruit were very unripe, when it has a green rind... I would still call it an orange, not a "green".

It was the name of the fruit before it was the color of the fruit, if I'm not mistaken. Though, I suppose I'm only speculating there. It may have been awhile since I've eaten one, and I prefer the purple Moros anyway, but they've always seemed to be rather orange to me. Quite distinct from the flesh of a lemon, for instance.

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