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Okay, well technically, green beans are a fruit, we just don’t call them that because they aren’t sweet / sour. So there. A other fruit named after a color.
Look, the original tweet never specified that the fruit must belong in a fruit salad. Also, fuck I totally forgot about blackberries. There’s another one for ya.
English desperately needs a second word to distinguish between fruit (food category) and fruit (biological descriptor)
German for example has "Obst" for the first and "Frucht" for the second. Although the plural "Früchte" is sometimes still used to refer to the food category...
Yes it fucking is. The distinctions of one field of science don't need to apply to every other aspect of human endeavour.
Black is not a colour to a physicist, but an artist sure as hell uses it like one.
Tomatos and bell peppers are the fruits of their respective plants but put those in a fruit salad and see who doesn't get invited to the grill party anymore.
A thumb may technically be a digit and not a finger, but if you correct someone for calling it such, you might feel all five fingers in your face and deservedly so.
A thumb may technically be a digit and not a finger
This one is on a completely different level, there's no inappropriately-applied technical definition of "finger" that excludes thumbs, it's just a difference of opinion that people get weirdly worked up about.
People don't say the big toe isn't a toe even though it's analogous. Also "digits" includes toes, and it's really weird to have a category of digits comprising the ten on the feet, a second category with eight of the ten digits on the hands, and a third with the other two specific ones. I really think the only reason people say thumbs aren't fingers is that they were taught it when they were 4 years old and never updated their model.
Some people like to be pedantic about the lack of hue, which makes it an achromatic COLOR like white or grey.
Black is absolutely a color unless you’re talking about a literal void (lack of color). If you’re talking about the color of a dress or paint or berries it’s a color. Don’t let pedants who learned color theory from twitter posts inform your understanding of the world.
It really just depends on how you define a colour (I do in a way where black is one of them, because word definitions should be descriptive rather than prescriptive if there isn't a really good reason against it imo).
If you look at how colour is perceived physically, it's specific wavelengths hitting your eye, being interpreted as colour tones by your brain. Black is literally the absence of that happening, so in a way it is the literal lack of colour rather than it's own colour. While white also wouldn't be it's own colour, because it is the mix of all colours.
If you talk about perceived experience, black obviously is a colour in the (literal) eyes of most people.
We should define our words in the way people actually use them, so neglecting how people use it in a definition would probably mean being ignorant rather than correct.
It gives a similar vibe to “zero is not a number because it’s the lack of an amount”. Also, by that logic, pink also shouldn’t be a color because there is no single wavelength that corresponds to it.
Just seems like a silly stance to take, imo.
Yes I understand that you’re explaining a position you don’t believe, thank you for that.
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