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Colo(u)r Connotations
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The colour red often seems to be associated with anger and aggression.
(and thanks for the nod to my 'u'!)
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Green with envy comes via Shakespeare. Which play is it again?
We can make up our own color associations and see if they take "root." It's possible, given our far-reaching (as far a Poughkeepsie, NY) influence in the linguistic world.
in a blue funkin a brown study
Do they count?
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Purple haze (daydreaming). In the pink!
It could be fun to make up our own though......
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Écru, ivory, taupe, etc. and so forth, to man are all beige.
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Belgian beer has panache. German has Reinheitsgebot.
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There used to be commercials for Olympia beer, brewed in the state of Washington, which claimed that the artesians made all the difference in the brewing of beer. The artesians were seen as blurs throughout the commercials.
Green is also associated with ecology and wealth.When you're in the red, you are in debt and in the black, you are not.
When you're in the pink, you're in good health
At the moment, I'm green around the gills.
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Why are black rhinoceros and white rhinoceros the same color?
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bottle greenor
green as poison
These are interesting:"Whites" are pink
"Blacks" are brown
"Red men" are light brown
"Yellow men" vary, mostly by latitude, but rarely are yellow
Go figure.
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Gosh are they still 'alive'? They lasted well."Virginal white"
Hmm. There's a joke about a "wide-mouthed frog," with bawdy and Bowdlerized versions.A "white-mouthed frog" just won't cut it.
The Dixie Chicks' "White Trash Wedding"--"I should be wearing white but you can't afford no ring."
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"Kill all the white peopleBut buy my record first."
--Eddie Murphy
When you have money left over, you are in the black. If you owe money, you are in the red.
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not to forget the 'White Knight'!And the 'Lady in Red'
hmmmm...would they make pink?
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Once you have alizarin, you never get rid of it.
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Away with words! Give me deeds!A whey with words? May the milk turn to clabber in yer mouth!
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The moon, of course, is made of green cheese.
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A scarlet woman/The workers' flag is deepest red
Green with envy/How green was my valley/A million green jobs
The blues
A black day for humanity
Pure as the driven snow
A yellow stripe down his back
A sound like gray wallpaper (Bea Lillie)
Yadda Yadda. My question is, in other languages, are color associations different? I know that in China white, not black, is the color of death.
Does anyone, especially speakers of non-West-European languages, know what colors connote in other places?