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(...) I don't speak Fench, but verdigris sounds like gray-green to me. (Well, green-gray, actually). IMO, gray-green is fairly descriptive and easy to remember. --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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(...) I speak French, I am pretty sure the word isn't originally French. My guess would be Italian. Also I believe the spelling is: verdegris. I may be wrong. Kev Z 142 (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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seems french to me, and spelled correctly too: (URL) turns up this: No entry found for "verdegris" in the dictionary. :) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Hi, Oops, my mistake. Excuse me a moment. <Removes foot from mouth> That's better. I guess I don't speak french as well as I think ;-) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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I checked my french-english dictionary (it's only a pocket one, so it's not very complete) and neither word was in the french side... (my guess is that this is only *derived* from french) the translation from english Verdigris to french is (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Spelled correctly, as you point out, dictionary.com reveals this: [Middle English vertegrez, from Old French verte grez, alteration of vert-de- Grice: verd, green; see verdure + de, of (from Latin d); see de- + Grice, Greece.] "Verde" in (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) The "green brass" etymology I mentioned before can be found at (URL) n. [F. vert-de-gris, apparently from verd, vert, green + de of + gris gray, but really a corruption of LL. viride aeris (equivalent to L. aerugo), from L. viridis green + (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I think "copper green" is an interesting one -- but it would never work. :-) --Todd (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) By not being a part of it. The main reason that I think that verdigris is a bad choice is that newcomers will have no idea what color that refers to. Before this discussion, if someone had refered to a "verdigris brick", I wouldn't know if (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) "Copper Green" is also a brand of Copper Naphthalate (I think) in solution that is used to paint on wood to inhibit termites and rot. It smells horrible. I vote for "verdigris". If there is already a word that has the correct definition, we (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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(...) I don't think you are giving newcomers enough credit. Before Lugnet I had no clue what bardings or (as Eric McC. mentions) sprues were (I knew what a kepi was, but then, I have a fairly decent vocabulary), but it didn't take much time or (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, to be honest, I was confused and had to go look it up in another message. Your points are well taken though, except I still think that Gray-green is better because it is clearer. :) Ben Roller (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Gray/grey/-green or copper-green is my choice but, what is sprue by the way?..:-) Actually I know it but I can't figure out anything related with both it and Lego. Selçuk (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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(...) Sprue is the bit of plastic to which minifig tools are attached. I didn't know about the other meaning until just now -- I checked the dictionary. Steve (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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