Worldwide there are 336 million native English speakers and just under 70% of those live in the US - which I think makes US spellings the norm and the rest of the world aberrant.
Imagine thinking the USA is the dominant English speaking part of the world. There's always some cherry-picked nonsense. Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Europe are irrelevant to you!
You should have asked her what is in the tube of black paint.
Saying black isn't a color is only true for light-generated color, like on a TV output or night blackness. This is the additive theory of color, which is really only useful in physics.
Black is definitely a color when it comes to pigments, colors, and art. Plenty of pigments and molecular structures can create black. The subtractive theory of color is mostly what you'd interact with on a daily basis.
On a side note, very few objects are true black bodies. Pretty much anything we see on earth will still reflect some light. Plus I would personally categorize black is a color because it's something we can perceive and identify. I wouldn't group it with other "not-color" parts of the UV spectrum like infrared, ultraviolet, microwave...
yes, but colour can only be perceived when light reflects off it
True black (which would be very hard to create as you say) is something that absorbs all visible light, just as true white reflects all visible light and is therefore a combination of all visible colours
I knew someone who thought that the colour was pronounced the same as "cayenne", and didn't know why the seasoning was called by a colour that it wasn't.
I got all of them pretty easily. A little unexpected the answers would be so obvious though. Its like they're so obvious you think it's too obvious and don't care to even check sometimes.
How in the world is that sad?!? Some people are warm and colourfull themselves and don't need screaming flashing stuff. But can see the beauty in pure and simple things.
I like gray aswell, because it just needs a tiny hint of colour ( a little stripe for instance) to make that colour look amazing and much more meaningfull. Instead of a chaos of colors where one is overscreaming the other and it is one cacophony and none of the colors is really done justice.
It reminds me of how some kids have hundreds of (expensive) toys and still arent satisfied, and toss em away after only having played with it once. While some with only a few simple items are. Like a rock and a piece of wood, and create entire new games and worlds with it.
Think about which one is sad... (I wouldnt vote for the one that is creative and humble and thankfulll over the one that is ungratefull and wines and can't see the value of things (and with value i dont mean moneywise)
These eleven are anthropologically the correct set. Whether they are scientifically colors is irrelevant. It is also the list of the most common color terms in a huge set of English. By anthropologically, I mean there is an order to the terms for color a society uses. Some only have three terms: black, white, and red. Some have four - and it is always the same four. And so on. Once a society has eleven basic color terms, the colors here are the ones named.
When I used to teach ESL, we had a song for when we were teaching colors that literally listed these specific 11 colors. I started with that, and was amazed it finished the quiz. Very quick and a easy 5 pts :-)
I thought the instructions said the list doesn't include colors whose primary meaning is an object. I would argue that the primary (first) meaning of orange is the fruit. Consider omitting orange or changing the wording of the instructions.
It is actually a very easy quiz, no need to flex your typing abilities, take into consideration that almost half of the people who took this quiz got 100%. With a WPM of about 60 you could probably finish in 30 or so seconds, I have finished in 7 seconds but that is irrelevant.
Wow literally got it just right away. I guess I'd done it before but it'd been some time. Today I got Red Green Blue, then staggered Yellow as the various "primary colors" by different systems. Then I thought, well okay what about the not-quite-colors. Got white and black, then grey, then brown. Then I thought well, there must be a couple others, like maybe pink, or orange. Then I had one left and tried purple. 15 seconds front to back. Basically just luck.
Saying black isn't a color is only true for light-generated color, like on a TV output or night blackness. This is the additive theory of color, which is really only useful in physics.
Black is definitely a color when it comes to pigments, colors, and art. Plenty of pigments and molecular structures can create black. The subtractive theory of color is mostly what you'd interact with on a daily basis.
On a side note, very few objects are true black bodies. Pretty much anything we see on earth will still reflect some light. Plus I would personally categorize black is a color because it's something we can perceive and identify. I wouldn't group it with other "not-color" parts of the UV spectrum like infrared, ultraviolet, microwave...
I say 'Wibble'.
True black (which would be very hard to create as you say) is something that absorbs all visible light, just as true white reflects all visible light and is therefore a combination of all visible colours
Why Not?
I like gray aswell, because it just needs a tiny hint of colour ( a little stripe for instance) to make that colour look amazing and much more meaningfull. Instead of a chaos of colors where one is overscreaming the other and it is one cacophony and none of the colors is really done justice.
Think about which one is sad... (I wouldnt vote for the one that is creative and humble and thankfulll over the one that is ungratefull and wines and can't see the value of things (and with value i dont mean moneywise)
How about golden?
Red, Orange, Yellow, Lime, Green, Cyan, Blue, Navy, Purple, Lavender, Magenta, Pink, Tan, Brown, Olive, White, Gray, and Black
Lime
Magenta
Cyan
Scarlett
Indigo
Violet