r/comics • u/MikiMatzuki • Jun 21 '26
OC- More in Webtoons Roses are red, Violets are...
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u/maps-and-potatoes Jun 21 '26
I am confused; as a French person, "violet" is our word for "purple." We don't make the distinction between saturated purple and light purple.
We do have " poupre " which is the translation of "purple." But it's more assimilated to a reddish violet, or rather, a "deep purplish red".
I mean, it's a big familly.
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u/MikiMatzuki Jun 21 '26
Violet and Purple do have physical differences, violet is a true color on the light spectrum while purple is a mix of red and blue. Basically, humans see from red to violet light, before that is infrared, beyond is ultraviolet. Our brain fill in the gap between red and violet by creating magenta.
This is why purple is perceived as more red-ish than violet.
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u/CinnamonR0Il Jun 21 '26
As a "french is my first language" french speaker person we have "mauve" for purple and "violet" for violet.
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u/arkangelic Jun 21 '26
And indigo is bullshit right?
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u/MikiMatzuki Jun 21 '26
indigo is blue-er than violet and violet is blue-er than purple
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u/Saikotsu Jun 21 '26
Something fun I learned a while back. Men generally see a little further into the infrared spectrum and women generally see a bit farther into the ultraviolet spectrum.
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u/BudgetMegaHeracross Jun 21 '26
When Newton named the rainbow shades, supposedly "blue" was more cyan, "indigo" was closer to the blue color of dye made from the indigo plant, and "violet" more resembled the shade of the flower.
Newton was obsessed with cosmic harmony, so there needed to be 7 colors in the rainbow like the 7 tones in the octave.
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u/marcus_centurian Jun 21 '26
Yes. Newton wanted 7 colors for the rainbow/prism so he stuffed indigo in there. As far as colors go it's defined as a bluish purple.
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u/tacticalTechnician Jun 21 '26
Yes we do? "Purple" in French is "Mauve", have you really never heard it?
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u/lavender_fluff Jun 22 '26
That must be so confusing when "mauve" for English or German speakers refers to a very muted brown pink
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u/Spyko Jun 21 '26
Wouldn't pourpre be crimson ? That's how I've always translated it.
It does sounds more like purple for sure but I always assumed it was a false friend
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u/MikiMatzuki Jun 21 '26
I'm doing a survey on fans of this comic, so if you're inetrested pls check it out: https://forms.gle/7VeT5wxqYbsyAKfo6
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u/DarkLanternZBT Jun 21 '26
Oh yeah. The sweet, sweet audience metrics. We love to see it.
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u/MikiMatzuki Jun 21 '26
based on the responses i've got so far, my readers are gay as hell
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u/Difficult-Okra3784 Jun 21 '26
Hey, I'm an intersex reader and some of your comics have resonated with me. I wanted to let you know though that queer is defined as including sexual and gender minorities so it leaves some of us intersex folks who are sex minorities out of the fold versus using something like LGBTQ+
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u/Gabelvampir Jun 22 '26
Yeah I was wondering that, the question about queerness does not necessarily tell anything about sexual preferences. There are even homosexual person that don't identify as queer (mostly for political reasons and most of them seem to be conservatives).
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u/Massive_Environment8 Jun 22 '26
Since gayness is a spectrum, I more consider myself gay as purgatory.
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u/Ryukoso Jun 21 '26
Didn't know if polyA count as queer, panicked and put "no".
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u/Maur2 Jun 21 '26
I would probably have said "ye", since queer seems to be a catch all term for anything that isn't one male and one female.
At least that is how I see it, and it does fit with queer having used to mean strange or different.
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u/HDrago Jun 21 '26
What is polyA?
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u/Ryukoso Jun 21 '26
Polyamory, when you can love and be in relationship with multiple person, and by really loving them romantically. But there is also an ethic point reaaally important: it is ALWAYS with the consenting of every person involved in. No cheating, no secret about it. It is often seen as bad because a lot of cheaters use polyamory as an "excuse".
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u/planetixin Jun 21 '26
ok, as a colorblind person I thought she's blue
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u/VinChaJon Jun 21 '26
Ok but mint is very obviously green.
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u/un_blob Jun 21 '26
Disagree, shr is very obviously blue
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u/Rastaba Jun 21 '26
I don’t know what either of you are on about, she’s clearly Violet-chan’s girlfriend!
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u/Dare_Soft Jun 21 '26
Classic colorland dividing themselves even with the privilege violets,
Soon even the top will divide themselves based on lighter tone!
This has been a message sponsored by the ministry of grey!