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Re: Color Change - color names
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 6 May 2004 06:13:35 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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In lugnet.lego, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.lego, David Gregory wrote:
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Awesome naming method! I had just gotten used to calling old/classic Grays
& Browns “True Gray” & “True Brown,” and the new grays and browns “false
gray” and “false brown.” I like your nomenclature better though. I think
I’ll start using it.
We could also call the new dark gray “Confederate
gray” and thus equate it with the evilness of slavery.
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Why stop there? Call it Nazi Death-Slaver Grey and you get the whole
spectrum.
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OK, now that’s just over the line. Assigning a color as “Nazi” is bad enough,
but adding “Death Slaver” to it pushes it over. Don’t like the color change?
Fine. But I personally take exception when someone associates a relatively
minor change in LEGO materials to WWII Nazi slavery. It’s simply not
appropriate when discussing a toy, especially one with a massive market
share in Germany as well as the rest of Europe.
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FYI, you might find this post of interest:
http://news.lugnet.com/lego/?n=731
Though I get the impression that “Wehrmachtsgrau” doesn’t necessarily imply
“Nazi” but military or army gray, instead. At least Babel Fish says it means
“Armed forces-grey”.
Mark
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| (...) OK, now that's just over the line. Assigning a color as "Nazi" is bad enough, but adding "Death Slaver" to it pushes it over. Don't like the color change? Fine. But I personally take exception when someone associates a relatively minor change (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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