And here is the scarf – which neither of you can have 'cos it’s for Sudden Daughter:
and
Coo! Colour me impressed.
I hadn’t realised until I looked it up just now that the rainbow flag has been ‘rationalised’ to six colours.
She was very clear about that, and about which shades of colour she wanted, and that it had to be cotton. She didn’t actually specify that she wanted it the size of a college scarf, but that was how it turned out. I just hope to goodness that she likes it!
Can’t imagine that she wouldn’t like it. It is a very fine scarf.
No criticism intended 're the six colours - I just didn’t know / had never noticed
That’s absolutely stunning, Fishy
Carinthia.xx
I am just reading on wiki - as I was wondering if the sixth colour was indigo or violet - that it is a combination of the two. So you can still say ‘Richard Of York Gave Battle InVain’ but you have to say the last two words quickly, running them together. Lovely scarf, I am certain Sudden Daughter will adore it.
The conventional seven-colour rainbow only exists because Isaac Newton thought there ought to be seven colours in it, so he invented a division.
[sulkity] [sulkity] So they were lying to me in primary skool. Who can I sue?
Exactly. The division into seven was anything but rational, related to Newton’s alchemical beliefs. In fact it’s a continuum, dependent on wavelength. There’s a fun tool to play with here:
Oooo thank you everyone
I have a nice rioja to share if anyone fancies a drop?
Meh.
Where does hyacinthine fall, where wine-dark, where bronze? You can’t be feeling blue, the Greeks didn’t have a word for it. Now I know Foucault about Linguistic Relativism, relatively speaking, but I do think the theory that perception is ruled to an extent by vocabulary (who hasn’t been keeping up with the latest papers, eh, Gus?) has legs. Possibly insufficient legs for the weight dumped on it at one time, but still…
You’ll be learning lojban before we know where we are, eh?
le mi varkiclaflo’i cu culno lo angila
just pursuing a train of thought here, joe, arising from a wild guess, but how easy do you reckon it would be to play the flute with a Babel fish stuffed up each nostril?
But Babel fish live in yer ears!
Not invariably, Twellsy. One could build them little nose-ladders, like they do for salmon.
Fishy dere
We need info about a cousin of yours…
Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj
Mia angilo estas plena de pasaĝeroj kaj valizoj: li estas kuraĝa kaj virta angilo. Via kusenveturilo estis misa kaj enprofundigis.
Many thanks for kind wishes. Today has been a goodun.
Good nights, Cellarites.
Soo xx