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  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Because the dry outer skin is a rich red colour

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  • gergolippai@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    in hungarian it’s purple onion, you just choose the wrong language :)

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    • webp@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      At least we aren’t hungary all the time

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  • Doom@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because they are only purple on the inside. Do you think apples are white? Or bananas?

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • lauha@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Humans are red so why not?

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    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s a different variety than my local grocers. Stores near me, the papery outside it brown the red flesh you see there is dark purple for us.

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  • killingspark@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wait till they find out that some cultures didn’t have separate words for green and blue

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  • BunScientist@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    From what I know, it has to do with the word red covering the purple part of the spectrum long ago, and the “need” for the word purple came out later but purple things that were named red didn’t get renamed.

    You can look at japanese right now and 青い covers both blue and green, with a relatively recent addition of 緑 to cover only green (thus possibly pushing 青い in the future to be only blue, who knows)

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    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Similarly, the red fox is clearly orange, but English speakers were exposed to that species of fox before developing a word for that specific color. For bonus linguistical oddities, ‘orange’ was used for the fruit before it was used for the color.

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      • JamieDub86@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Or the red squirrel, which is brown.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, the word for greenery/foliage, 青葉, translates to “blue leaves”

      Also the green traffic light is called blue

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    • JamieDub86@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well whys it called Shepherds Pie when it doesnt contain shepherds, or Cottage Pie when its nothing to do with cottages or cottagimg? How about that one…checkmate!!!

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I already knew this about colors (it’s also why “redheads” have orange hair) but I recently dug more into how the musical spectrum and how tones are defined is very similar in it’s cultural variance. Another thing is how the cardinal directions are divided radially and how time is counted. Shit counting bases even, most of the imperial measurements are based on either base 12 or base 16 math.

      Wild to think that something you grew up with as a fundamental fact of the world might actually be super culturally subjective.

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For bonus points, terms for colors are developed differently but similarly in different languages: see e.g. ‘Color term’.

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  • MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Because purple isn’t a colour

    It’s the absence of colour your brain cannot interpret so it makes a purple.

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    • Ironrod@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I doubt whoever named it knew that though

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  • weps@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    An orange is about the only thing correctly named

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  • RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    why do we call green grapes white

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    • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or purple grapes red?

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      • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Grapes don’t make wine, silly. They’re inert.

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      • anewfox@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        when i say “red grapes,” i’m always referring to the ones that are actually red because they have the most satisfying snap when you eat them.

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    • hanke@feddit.nu ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Who calls green grapes white…?

      Never heard that happen

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      • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Might be different in other languages, but English usually divides grapes into red and white for color.

        But I guess another question is why they call it white wine when it’s more yellow.

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      • anewfox@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        two examples: white wine, white grape juice. both are very common.

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      • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Never heard about green grapes. Here in Germany they are called “white grapes” and EN-Wikipedia is also calling them that in english. We are also talking it “white wine” and so on.

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  • atx_aquarian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jess and Rob on Words Unraveled talk about color word origins, and their discussion is illuminating about the cultural variance in perception of color. Now I am at peace with all the seemingly weird color names for things.

    For a quicker tour, Vox talks about the order that languages fill in color words as cultures begin to refine their distinction.

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  • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    We’re not white on the Inside, so why should a red onion have to be red all the way through

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  • Danarchy@lemmy.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It refers to the communism of the onions

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    • MrChewy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Like ogres?

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      • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        We’re all pink on the inside

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  • poipoiuleon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In Spanish we actually call them “cebolla morada” that means purple onion :D

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    • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m bilingual and I always forget which language calls it which, so I get confused looks from everyone.

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      • poipoiuleon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        JAJAJJAJAJAJJA yep it has happened to me

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same reason they call the tree a “Redbud tree.”

    Barely literate settlers were colonizing and writing home about the beautiful Puple Prule Purlple Lavendaar Red-Bud Trees.

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  • Speiser0@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The inside is purple, but the outside is red, especially if it’s dry.

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  • fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We call them purple in Spanish… English has brain damage as per usual.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s weird, I would have thought you’d call them morado in Spanish.

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  • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m crying

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  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I spent way too much time sitting in the backseat looking out the window on long family drives wondering why the fuck they kept referring to the orange cheddar cheese as “yellow” cheese. Still kind of annoys me today after decades of getting older and settling down a bit.

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  • KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Calm down… calm down… Perhaps consider putting the onions aside and trying a nice parsnip.

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  • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yet purple finches clearly are red

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  • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve found the color in a things name usually points to what color dye you can extract from it.

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  • shweddy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nobody tell them about red cabbage

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  • evolatic@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t know if this has anything to do with it, but it’s a cool read nonetheless.

    popularmechanics.com/…/purple-is-fake-research/

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because calling them blue onions would be weird.

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    • brownsugga@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      isn’t that what they call them in germany

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      • MLM@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No. We call them red too

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  • gens@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I AM AN ADULT!

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    • yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Sorry to hear, me too… lets do taxes

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