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 Author: Hygrotus View Messages Posted By Hygrotus
 Posted: Feb 3, 2020 10:12
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Hygrotus (869)

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My proposition for color names
Short, simple and nice looking
 
 Author: toontexas View Messages Posted By toontexas
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In Colors, Hygrotus writes:
  My proposition for color names
Short, simple and nice looking

This might cause some issues.....
 
 Author: Hygrotus View Messages Posted By Hygrotus
 Posted: Feb 3, 2020 10:33
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In Colors, toontexas writes:
  In Colors, Hygrotus writes:
  My proposition for color names
Short, simple and nice looking

This might cause some issues.....

So you think this country name should be immediatly change then
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger

and btw
over 1000 results in seraching names with world niger in species databank (both
animals and plants)
https://species.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=niger&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1
and I even didn't look for every declension of this world in those names
http://latindictionary.wikidot.com/adjective:niger
 Author: toontexas View Messages Posted By toontexas
 Posted: Feb 3, 2020 11:12
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In Colors, Hygrotus writes:
  In Colors, toontexas writes:
  In Colors, Hygrotus writes:
  My proposition for color names
Short, simple and nice looking

This might cause some issues.....

So you think this country name should be immediatly change then
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger

and btw
over 1000 results in seraching names with world niger in species databank (both
animals and plants)
https://species.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=niger&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1
and I even didn't look for every declension of this world in those names
http://latindictionary.wikidot.com/adjective:niger


I never insinuated that an African country should change its name. Those are
your words, not mine.

I am well aware that a latin word to describe the color black is "niger". I am
also aware that a big portion of the American people would have an issue with
renaming the color black to niger. Since you're so fond of wikipedia, may
I direct your attention to this page, please: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger
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 Author: Hygrotus View Messages Posted By Hygrotus
 Posted: Feb 3, 2020 11:20
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In Colors, toontexas writes:
  In Colors, Hygrotus writes:
  In Colors, toontexas writes:
  In Colors, Hygrotus writes:
  My proposition for color names
Short, simple and nice looking

This might cause some issues.....

So you think this country name should be immediatly change then
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger

and btw
over 1000 results in seraching names with world niger in species databank (both
animals and plants)
https://species.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=niger&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1
and I even didn't look for every declension of this world in those names
http://latindictionary.wikidot.com/adjective:niger


I never insinuated that an African country should change its name. Those are
your words, not mine.

I am well aware that a latin word to describe the color black is "niger". I am
also aware that a big portion of the American people would have an issue with
renaming the color black to niger. Since you're so fond of wikipedia, may
I direct your attention to this page, please: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger

I see a big diffrence in those worlds it is number of "g" in the world so I do
not see those words being the same Really how those two can be mistaken...
 Author: Hygrotus View Messages Posted By Hygrotus
 Posted: Feb 3, 2020 11:29
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In Colors, Hygrotus writes:
  In Colors, toontexas writes:
  In Colors, Hygrotus writes:
  In Colors, toontexas writes:
  In Colors, Hygrotus writes:
  My proposition for color names
Short, simple and nice looking

This might cause some issues.....

So you think this country name should be immediatly change then
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger

and btw
over 1000 results in seraching names with world niger in species databank (both
animals and plants)
https://species.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=niger&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1
and I even didn't look for every declension of this world in those names
http://latindictionary.wikidot.com/adjective:niger


I never insinuated that an African country should change its name. Those are
your words, not mine.

I am well aware that a latin word to describe the color black is "niger". I am
also aware that a big portion of the American people would have an issue with
renaming the color black to niger. Since you're so fond of wikipedia, may
I direct your attention to this page, please: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger

I see a big diffrence in those worlds it is number of "g" in the world so I do
not see those words being the same Really how those two can be mistaken...

P.S.
Too bad you don't know polish but this family of beetles have very very politically
incorrect polish name of them. But I'm unable to correctly translate this
to english.
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czarnuchowate

but in Sweden they couldn't live with such names
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-changes-racist-bird-names-10064608.html
 Author: ratas View Messages Posted By ratas
 Posted: Feb 3, 2020 13:04
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In Colors, Hygrotus writes:
  I see a big diffrence in those worlds it is number of "g" in the world so I do
not see those words being the same Really how those two can be mistaken...

Probably that was just a joke, but anyway... Those can be mistaken even more
easily than native English speakers writing "would of" instead of "would have"
or "would've", or missing all the periods and commas and capital letters
(except when shouting their insignificant opinions), or thinking silicon and
silicone are the same thing. Etc.

The last example perhaps being most comparable to the nig[g]er -case, as in both
cases, there is at least something common behind the different but similar looking
words. But overall, the idea was to emphasize how poorly educated (or poorly
learned) or those with reading issues (like dyslexia etc.) can so easily mix
up things, and then things happen. Sometimes hilarious , sometimes up to (or
down to?) murderous.
 Author: Cob View Messages Posted By Cob
 Posted: Feb 3, 2020 10:42
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In Colors, toontexas writes:
  In Colors, Hygrotus writes:
  My proposition for color names
Short, simple and nice looking

This might cause some issues.....

Only with people who are looking to make it an issue.