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[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I'd call it "olive".

I you'll permit me a tangent, the linguistics of the senses are something that fascinate me. Color names have been studied a fair bit, and an oft-repeated (not sure how accurate) theory states that languages acquire color names in a particular order, starting with words for dark and light, then red, then green and yellow, and so on. As a student of Latin and to a much lesser extent Greek I was interested to find out that there's no exact word for "blue" in classical Latin or Greek, hence Homer's famous "wine-dark sea".

As a blind person I'm more interested in odor vocabulary. The dominant theory until recently is that language is incapable of describing odors as qualia distinct from the sources of those odors. That is, "green" describes a particular instance of subjective experience independent of grass or bile or any other green thing, but terms for odors all stem from analogies or just the words for their sources. Earth smells "earthy", flowers smell "floral" and so on.

But some research on minority languages spoken by hunter-gatherers living in Thailand suggest that at least some languages do have "odor colors" as I call them. I desperately want a non-technical breakdown of these studies, or indeed access to the papers at all, but the details are behind pay walls.

Some of my conlangs are meant to have such odor colors based on the valence-arousal model of emotions since their speakers communicate mood through pheromones rather than body language. Their color words in contrast work like human odor words, only being able to describe color by analogy with something so colored.

[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

What kind of nerds do you claim to be in this thread?! Despite being late, I see no mention of the xkcd color survey: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

As far as I can read just by eye, its "mustard" or "olive", but funnily it also seem close to the one someone annotated: "really? this color again? i have nothing against colors personally, but this one just stands out from the rest as unusually unattractive. i almost feel sad for it, but it made the decision to be that color so it has to find a way to deal with it."

But, someone, feel free to dig into the hex codes to give a more definite answer.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

A couple dozen people embedded SQL ‘drop table’ statements in the color names. Nice try, kids.

Made me laugh.

[–] crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago
[–] psoul@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Caca d’oie (goose poop) It’s a true color name in French

Very slightly yellow brown, I guess kinda olive.

[–] odama626@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] spykee@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago

I aint doing that again. Hurts like hell.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

Baby's first spinach poo

[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago
[–] unminded@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago
[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In Catalan we'd call this “color de merda d'oca”. Goose shit colour.

We're quite a scatological people (see our Christmas traditions, for instance).

[–] wildwhitehorses@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago
[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I call it Captain Kirk's Shirt.

[–] Small_Quasar@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Command Yellow

[–] Anon_12345@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago

Dark yellow olive tone (#7B690B)

[–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

The United States Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) flirts with it.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Last squirt diarrhea.

[–] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 47 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago

This one seems to be the closest, unironically. Now my curiosity is satisfied and my soul at peace.

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[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] korendian@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Scrolled way too far to see this

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[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 6 points 2 days ago

I would say no, ochre would have more of a red or orange-y tint.

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Yellow ochre gives a similar result, but is missing the blue tones that make slightly green

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I saw this color on a Jeep once. 🤮

[–] jahayk@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 19 points 2 days ago

Or shartreuse

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

A hue of orange

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Vomit green

Edit No wait! YELLOW

[–] MarieMarion@literature.cafe 12 points 2 days ago

In French, caca d'oie - "goose poo".

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

1970 called and it wants its color back.

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago

It's the lighter shade of depression brown the UK covered all tobacco products with.

Dehydrated bile green?

[–] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

probs a light brown

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago

More like olive stylish

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago
[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago
[–] Fokeu@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

Diarrhea brown

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago

olive green, or dijon mustard

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 13 points 2 days ago

Too yellow to be olive green, too green to be proper mustard yellow.

Olive yellow or green mustard, your choice

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Strange poo

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] semisimian@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah, a man of culture! But this colour is too greenish, I think

[–] mech@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

The "darker yellow" in Windows 3.11

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks like theres a site you can use to get color names. It says its called Browny Green

https://colors.artyclick.com/color-names-dictionary/color-names/browny-green-color

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