the older I get, the more exasperated and less patience I have with modern English speaking cultures and their collective obsession for extremely precise language

this has been brought to you by "fucking SHIT are people going off on that shitty Violets Aren't Blue bullshit AGAIN"

@InspectorCaracal "roses are red
violets aren't blue
but bugger all rhymes with violet
so fuck you"

@troubleMoney@computerfairi.es LOOK JUST BECAUSE OUR TECHNOLOGY HAS ENORMOUSLY EXPANDED THE RANGE OF POTENTIAL PIGMENT COLORS AND COLOR THEORY AND OUR SOCIETY HAS COLLECTIVELY DECIDED THAT HISTORIC SUPERCATEGORIES AREN'T FUCKING SCIENTIFIC ENOUGH DOESN'T JUSTIFY BEING PEDANTIC ASSHOLES ABOUT A STUPID SHITTY POEM IT ISN'T FUNNY AND I AM TIRED OF IT

@InspectorCaracal I'm 100% sure those same people still insist on indigo being a colour

@troubleMoney@computerfairi.es i mean... indigo is a color. i don't really know what you're going for here.

@InspectorCaracal indigo is a bullshit colour that's only on the spectrum because Newton had an alchemical hard-on for the number 7

it's blue

@troubleMoney@computerfairi.es indigo is a color because it's based on a fucking pigment

the "color spectrum" is a fucking spectrum it doesn't have any fucking delineations

there is no inherently Correct or Superior way to define any fucking color categories, if indigo is blue then violet can fucking be blue too, it's just as much of a "real color" as fucking mauve, THEY'RE BOTH JUST NAMED AFTER THE FLOWERS THE COLOR RESEMBLES.

@InspectorCaracal I was just taking the piss, I did not expect that to hit a nerve like it did

@troubleMoney@computerfairi.es it's cool I'm not actually mad at you <.< I'm just, apparently, really mad about overly precise language lately, 😅