I think you're having a Mengele Effect about the Mandela Effect
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2024
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Maybe you feel that way because green vermin are seen as ill
For me, this word is associated with red
There's a wonderful game I played called crosscode, and one of the areas is called "Vermillion Wastelands" and everything is red. Also that's the first time I heard the word so can't relate
Bro, you never played pokemon?
Oh Yeah. As a kid I never actually knew how to pronounce the word.
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I feel the same sort of way about chartreuse. Can we just switch them?
Chartreuse is literally named after the green French liquor.
It's my favorite alcohol, and the color is amazing.
I will not accept this blasphemy
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It's because the ver looks like vert which is the french word for green
Vermont is derived from Green Mountain
So vermilion looks like it could mean a green million, which sounds like a funny way to say a million dollars.
Verde is also green in Spanish. A quick translation tells me that in Latin it's Viridis which makes it make sense that it's similar in most Latin based languages.
A fancy word for green in English is Viridian
It's actually the name of a bluish green pigment not just a fancy work for green.
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I have a fictional scenario I invented where a blind man is completely confused that “maroon” is a shade of red, not blue, given that it relates to the sea.
No, it's yellow like Electric type.
Literally my thought.
How to start a fight with an etymologist...
Just tell them that beetles are stupid
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In Portuguese "vermelho" is red
Aw, came here to say that and got beaten to the punch. Damn you, fast Portuguese speakers.
I always feel like Portuguese is the romance language that hated their parents and refused to participate in any family activities. Like Latin is in the front seat yelling back "Cur non eritis sicut sorores tuae!" and Portuguese is in the way back going, "Pare de tentar controlar quem eu sou!"
I've heard it sounds like someone with a Slavic accent speaking Spanish
People speaking Russian always triggers my Portuguese language processor, so yeah I'd say that's accurate.
Here's the thing about Portuguese: you can go from portuguese to other romance languages much more easily than the reverse. If you want to learn Italian, French and Portuguese, start with Portuguese.
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Portuguese is what happens when you let a bunch of drunk sailors create their own language.
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naw, its the french poisoning your mind
green in french is vert
We also have "vermeille" in French
For those of us in the US, we're more likely to encounter the Spanish "verde."
Given most of the US population lives between Massachusetts and Florida (so would likely have more of French exposure via English and history) , and the French influence in lots of English, it's a toss up.
I certainly learned the French vert long before the Spanish verde.
You're telling me you never encountered salsa verde before learning the French word "vert"? Even if true, I highly doubt that's the norm.
And I'm not sure why you think being on the East Coast matters. 13% of Americans speak Spanish at home, less than 0.4% speak French or Cajun at home. That's a ridiculously huge region you've cited that includes NYC where you're probably going to visit a bodega long before you learn "vert" and Florida which has major Spanish influence, just like the other two most populous states California and Texas. I live about 100 miles from the Canadian border in the west, so by your geographic argument I should encounter more French than Spanish, but Spanish exposure is way more common here.
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Because "vert" is the French word for green.
Ver- words are often green because of Latin. "Verde" in Italian, "Vert" in French, "Verdant" in English
Yeah, except for vermilion which comes from latin vermis and means worm.
Vermillion is such a pretty word to mean worm colored...
I guess a worm can be cute if you give it a bow to wear.
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Also "verde" in Portuguese, but red is "vermelho"
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