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the color orange is named after the fruit, not the other way around. english had no word for this color until the fruit started being imported to britain from the middle east in the medieval ages
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in japanese, the point at which green and blue are distinguished from one another is different than it is in english. japanese traffic lights have red, yellow, and green like everywhere else, but the teal color they use for green appears distinctively blue to native english speakers. but in japan they call it green.
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this is a sea slug called a sea bunny
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Sweevo posted:you can divide most european languages between those who got the word from spain and call it orange (from spanish "naranja"), those who got it from portugal and call it "bortugal" or "portakal") and those who called it "chinese apple" in their own language. similarly, you can divide most languages between those that got their tea from overland trade routes and thus call the stuff a variation of the central and northern chinese cha, and those that got their tea from ships departing ports in the far south and which call it a variation of the coastal southern chinese te.
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In the USA, ageism is considered illegal discrimination but only if the person being discriminated against is over 40. It is fine to be ageist against young people.
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cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, collard greens, daikon, kohlrabi, and gai lan are all the same plant (brassica oleracea). two other closely related brassica species also give us canola, mustard (greens and seeds), turnips, rutabagas, and bok choy. if aliens came to earth and studied humans, they would probably say that humans' preferred food is brassica because of all the different kinds of it we eat.
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