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(...) How do we know this? (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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(...) *shrug* I don't see any grey in it at all. Plus, verdi means green -- verdigris literally comes from the phrase "green of Greece". (And both dictionaries I looked in said so.) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001)
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(...) If they don't get an accurate picture from the dictionary, that's the dictionary's fault. Verdigris isn't actually a hugely variable shade -- it's just that colors are hard to describe/define in words. Luckily, the definitions in the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001)
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(...) Well, verdi=green, but gris actually = Greece. (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001)
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(...) This is a joke, right?..:-) Selçuk (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001)
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(...) You mean the GRAY GREEN ones?..:-))) Selçuk (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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(...) The man has a point, which is valid for grey as well. Maybe we should just call it grey-green or greenish grey? ++Lar (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001)
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My dictionary says "[ME vertegrez, fr. OF vert de Grice, lit., green of Greece] (14c)" I assume for the bronze artworks. It predates Lego. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001)
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Picture a discussion that someone comes into. The color GREEN is never mentioned, just verdigris. So the person looks it up. Tell me how they are going to know whether the color being discussed is a muted greyish green, or a greenish-something, or a (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001)
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Would you people CHILL OUT??? We go through this every year - to avoid repeating the past yet again... THE FIRST CATALOG DOES NOT HOLD THE ENTIRE LINE FOR THE YEAR!!! I don't think I've EVER seen the full Technic line listed until a few months into (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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