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Re: What is Bley???
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lugnet.color
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Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:46:52 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Matthew Crandall wrote:
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I also thought the newer, lighter blue (which I do like) had enough gray in
it--would that be bray?
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Heh, you can call it that if you’d like :)
I think the only reason that “bley” caught on is because it seems like it’s the
most commonly disliked color of the new colors (IE the one that hurt people the
most to see it change). Plus, the word “bley” is so reminiscant of “bleah” or
“blech” or whatever other retching sounds you want to conjure up, thereby
furthering the sentiment of distaste for the newer colors.
To be honest, this is the first I’ve ever heard of someone coming up with a new
name for the reddish-brown color that replaced brown. I think in general people
focus so much on the grey change that everything else is sort of encompassed by
“bley”.
I haven’t seen anyone else mention it in this thread, but gray, dark gray, and
brown weren’t the only colors to change in 2004. Purple, for instance changed in
2004 (Peeron name “Purple”) to a lighter shade (“BtPurple”). There might be more
as well, but I think they were (like purple) far less common colors.
DaveE
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| (...) Actually, Purple was replaced by Knight Bus Purple, aka MdLilac. BtPurple is the replacement for DkPink. Um, and it was used for newer Dumbledores, so Purple as well. Pink itself was also replaced by . . . something. (Colors, I don't do.) (...) (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.color)
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| (...) I think it caught on because it sounds like a real word. There aren't any new colors in the world, nobody gets to name new colors- except us! And we did, and whatever one may think about the color itself, the word is quite nice. Tim Smith (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| (...) Okay--thanks, everyone! It never occurred to me that a change in color palette might be construed as a bad thing; I simply looked at the newer stuff and went, "Oh--a new color." I also thought the newer, lighter blue (which I do like) had (...) (18 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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