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Re: Color name for Statue of Liberty Sculpture #3450
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lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001
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Date:
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Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:39:27 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Tom Stangl writes:
> Picture a discussion that someone comes into. The color GREEN is never
> mentioned, just verdigris. So the person looks it up.
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> Tell me how they are going to know whether the color being discussed is a muted
> greyish green, or a greenish-something, or a bluish-something, given the
> definitions.
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> The color we are discussing has no blue in it whatsoever that I could tell
> seeing it in person, but if you just used the definitions, it COULD.
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> I like the word verdigris too, but if the name is not obvious without asking
> for a clarification of a definition in the dictionary, it's the WRONG word to
> use.
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> Weathered green, aged green, "SOMETHING green" makes the best sense overall.
The man has a point, which is valid for grey as well. Maybe we should just
call it grey-green or greenish grey?
++Lar
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> Paul Davidson wrote:
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> > Tom Stangl, VFAQman <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message
> > news:3A05C764.F18F44FF@vfaq.com...
> > > Webster is out of date - patina simply means a weathered and/or • age-darkened finish
> > > to antiquers, and can apply to copper, bronze, nickel, wood, etc, etc, • etc.
> > >
> > > Weathered GREEN would make the most sense, as people would instantly know • it is a
> > > shade of GREEN.
> >
> > "Verdigris" is pretty obvious in meaning, I think. You'd have to be
> > (almost) illiterate not to make the verdi=green or gris=grey connections.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Paul Davidson
>
> --
> Tom Stangl
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