I mean, orange was right there...
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Which is a colour named after the fruit iirc
It is! We could use redcurrants, blackcurrants, and blackberries though
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Engagement bait.
right on. this tweet is like saying "there's not a single country in africa that starts with the letter K." there obviously is, but it's targeting people who are knowledgable enough to know the answer but not intelligent enough to understand the point of the tweet.
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But aren't oranges actually green?
*Not a joke, btw. Oranges grown in tropical places are green.
Oranges are green until they are ripe. What tropical place did you see a ripe green orange?
Vietnam. Brazil. Ecuador. A lot of equatorial places.
The orange color is caused by something happening to the chlorophyll when the temperatures cool. But in the tropics, temps can be fairly steadily warm and don't trigger that reaction.
In tropical countries, orange rinds may be permanently green – even when completely ripe.
Crazy!
Huh, TIL. I worked at an orange grove in the subtropics, and knew about the cold snap for other aspects of citrus, I never knew about the peel.
Apparently oranges and other citrus fruit (and others, like bananas) are "degreened" with ethylene.
Here's a video with bananas. https://youtu.be/jzjBAAv9nxc
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Having grown up in Brazil, I can confidently say that most of our oranges are indeed orange. Green is usually the colour of non-ripe ones and you can expect extreme acidity from them.
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I think this might have been a joke abstracted to allude to that, without falling for the trap. Oranges were not named after the color, the color was named after the fruit.
Orange, cherry, blackberry, etc.
I'm pretty sure orange and cherry are named after the fruit, but Blackberry is true.
Nah it's inspired from the phone
Nah that's apples
That tracks. Steve Jobs was known for his enjoyment of fruit, to a potentially problematic degree.
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those fuckers try to sell their fruit by using a brand's name. They even got the design wrong, it's supposed to have a curved side.
Pendants will argue that black is not a colour
Physicists might argue that, but black is a color linguistically and in common usage; I'd argue that since OP was generally speaking in a linguistic context, linguistic rules override physics pedantry.
linguistic rules override physics pedantry.
Idk why, maybe because I'm a scientist, but this speaks to something in my soul
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Redcurrant
Actually, the color is named after the fruit. It wasn't until the late Middle Ages that we discovered anything other than the redcurrant that was red in color. Poppies, for example, were only discovered in ~1917, and we only found out about blood in the 1970s.
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Hah! Why do we call black people coloured people then!
Checkmate blackisnotacolorists!
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The source for this is old reddit threads, so hardly authoritative, but supposedly the color orange was actually named after the food item.
Yes indeed. Before we had "orange", and also "purple" everything was just "red" which is why we have red onions and red cabbage that are anything but red and several species of bird are called red despite being clearly orange coloured.
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Blackberries
Even if those leaves were a fruit, they're not called greens. Some kinds of leaves are called that as a general term, but not the ones in the picture. He's wrong on so many levels!
Is that what he was saying? That's what I was confused about. Those leaves are not greens. They are green, but still everything you said.
Greengages.
Leaves are fruits? Eh?
If he's pretending to be this dumb, he's hilarious.
fruits are kind of a dessert, right? so are brownies.
Greengage?
Yellow squash
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