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Sheaffer Violet vs Purple
On 10 Jul 2003 at 23:14:34 GMT, Dik F. Liu scribbled:
-I teach a color theory course in two universities. Do you use "real" names for colors, as opposed to those fakey, euphemistic (or worse, Politically Correct) names that seem to be everywhere these days!? grin It seems to be difficult nowadays to find color charts with "real," old-fashioned color names. -Most people use these terms interchangeably. However, for some -colorists, purple is of a hue between violet and red. "Colorist"?! I wonder if that's good or bad. Would Senator Joe McCarthy have asked, "Are you now or have you ever been a mem- ber of the Colorist Party!?" In my salad days, a colorist party would've been a pretty good description of kindergarten. grin But seriously, stamp collectors distinguish between violet and purple. In my opinion the 1939 New York World's Fair 3-cent com- memorative stamp was the quintessentially most purply purple stamp of all time. The Scott stamp catalog calls it "deep purple." Between the mid-1930s and early 1940s there were many stamps issued of more reddish tints, variously called violet, red violet, rose violet, and the like, by the philatelic experts. Simply put, purple is more bluish, whereas violet is more red- dish. That's my rule of (purple) thumb, which I admit is influ- enced by the stamp catalogs. The professor's posted statement above appears to run counter to this. I'm suggesting a spectrum of blue - purple - violet - red, whereas he seems to be saying, or seeing, (blue -?) violet - purple - red. Perhaps all this proves is that the professor isn't a stamp collector!? -- ---------------------------------------------- david moeser -- erasmus39 on yahoo Censornati, Ohio - USA ---------------------------------------------- * One Size Does NOT Fit All! * (Headers munged to foil spammers; real info in taglines) |
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Edward Bonaventure wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.56.0307111527240.6265@shell1...
On 10 Jul 2003 at 23:14:34 GMT, Dik F. Liu scribbled: -I teach a color theory course in two universities. Do you use "real" names for colors, as opposed to those fakey, euphemistic (or worse, Politically Correct) names that seem to be everywhere these days!? grin It seems to be difficult nowadays to find color charts with "real," old-fashioned color names. -Most people use these terms interchangeably. However, for some -colorists, purple is of a hue between violet and red. "Colorist"?! I wonder if that's good or bad. Would Senator Joe McCarthy have asked, "Are you now or have you ever been a mem- ber of the Colorist Party!?" In my salad days, a colorist party would've been a pretty good description of kindergarten. grin But seriously, stamp collectors distinguish between violet and purple. In my opinion the 1939 New York World's Fair 3-cent com- memorative stamp was the quintessentially most purply purple stamp of all time. The Scott stamp catalog calls it "deep purple." Between the mid-1930s and early 1940s there were many stamps issued of more reddish tints, variously called violet, red violet, rose violet, and the like, by the philatelic experts. Simply put, purple is more bluish, whereas violet is more red- dish. That's my rule of (purple) thumb, which I admit is influ- enced by the stamp catalogs. The professor's posted statement above appears to run counter to this. I'm suggesting a spectrum of blue - purple - violet - red, whereas he seems to be saying, or seeing, (blue -?) violet - purple - red. Perhaps all this proves is that the professor isn't a stamp collector!? Edward, I'm not sure who's that professor you are talking about, but in any case here I go :-). Synonims do-not-exist. Each word has a semantic field which produces a complex mental process on the hearer/reader. Try to see them as snow flakes. They may look identical, but they are not. Hence all those ways to describe a colour. If we consider several languages, then things get even more complicated. A language is the result of the interaction of a group of individuals in a given environment. It's that simple. Change one thing from that formula and you'll get something different. One more example: "blue" in spanish does not have the sadness connotations it has in English. The colour is the same; it's the way we treat it that changes. I'd like to know what does Dik think about this. Juan |
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