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Re: S@H exclusive minifigure has been shipped! (#3723)
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:24:50 GMT
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Eric McCarthy wrote:
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> Todd Lehman wrote:
> >
> > In lugnet.general, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I think "copper green" is an interesting one -- but it would never work. :-)
> >
> > --Todd
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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.
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> I vote for "verdigris". If there is already a word that
> has the correct definition, we should use it!
> If a newcomer doesn't know what it means,
> they can look it up in a dictionary. I don't think the word
> is any more obscure than "kepi" or "sprue", for example.
> And "verdigris" has the precise, correct meaning already.
> The other suggested words require more of an extension to their
> definitions to fit the new Lego color.
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> /Eric McC/
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
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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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