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Fruit (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Does green apple count? It feels like an adjective but considering there's "green apple" flavored candy, I'd consider it a part of the noun.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I think the name for that variety is Granny Smith. The reason why it isn't called "Granny-Smith-flavored candy" will be left as an exercise for the reader.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Green beans are technically fruits

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Even if those leaves were a fruit, they're not called greens. Some kinds of leaves are called that as a general term, but not the ones in the picture. He's wrong on so many levels!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Is that what he was saying? That's what I was confused about. Those leaves are not greens. They are green, but still everything you said.

[-] [email protected] 91 points 2 days ago

I mean, orange was right there...

[-] [email protected] 126 points 2 days ago

Which is a colour named after the fruit iirc

[-] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago

It is! We could use redcurrants, blackcurrants, and blackberries though

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

A fact that I hadn't realized. TIL.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

right on. this tweet is like saying "there's not a single country in africa that starts with the letter K." there obviously is, but it's targeting people who are knowledgable enough to know the answer but not intelligent enough to understand the point of the tweet.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

This is how you do engagement bait

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

Just a little fun fact: the color was actually named after the fruit and not the other way around :D

“The word "orange" came into English from the Old French "pomme d'orenge", which referred to the fruit.”

There are still blackberries though…

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[-] [email protected] 65 points 2 days ago

Orange, cherry, blackberry, etc.

[-] [email protected] 80 points 2 days ago

I'm pretty sure orange and cherry are named after the fruit, but Blackberry is true.

[-] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago

Nah it's inspired from the phone

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

That tracks. Steve Jobs was known for his enjoyment of fruit, to a potentially problematic degree.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dunno who that is but Tim Apple invented the computer and his ancestors invented the apple (in 196 AD) and just for the record if you think enjoying fruit is problematic you’re probably homophobic or something ¯\(ツ)/¯ iunno go away

[-] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Fun fact: The first logo was going to include Isaac Newton but they hadn’t invented him yet!

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Pendants will argue that black is not a colour

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

One might ask Crayola.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Physicists might argue that, but black is a color linguistically and in common usage; I'd argue that since OP was generally speaking in a linguistic context, linguistic rules override physics pedantry.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

The source for this is old reddit threads, so hardly authoritative, but supposedly the color orange was actually named after the food item.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Yes indeed. Before we had "orange", and also "purple" everything was just "red" which is why we have red onions and red cabbage that are anything but red and several species of bird are called red despite being clearly orange coloured.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Purple was sort of around. There was a dye derived by clams with a name that sounds like purple by the Phoenicians, Greeks, then Romans, and was more of a red-purple to red, but that eventually evolved into the word we use now. They also attributed it to the color of wine and of all things, the ocean.

Weirdly blue is a pretty rare color concept in the ancient world, and a number of cultures often just combined it with green, or vice versa. The closest to blue as a concept they usually got was indigo, another dye imported from India, and they'd dilute that into woad for a slightly lighter more pastel/ periwinkle blue (it wouldn't stick as well as true indigo though).

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And why orange haired people still have red hair.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

Blackberries

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Yellow squash

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

fruits are kind of a dessert, right? so are brownies.

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