If you didn’t already guess my favorite color is blue… I wear black shirts a lot, but besides a few articles of clothing in different colors, I really enjoy the color blue.
After a few minutes of research on Wikipedia (online dictionary were everyone’s opinion counts; don’t post false info though, it’s illegal) I found out some startling information:
Different cultures have different terms for colors, and may also assign some color names to slightly different parts of the spectrum: for instance, the han character 青 (rendered as qīng in Mandarin and ao in Japanese) has a meaning that covers both blue and green; blue and green are traditionally considered shades of "青." In more contemporary terms, they are 藍 (lán, in Mandarin) and 綠 (lǜ, in Mandarin) respectively. Japanese also has two terms that refer specifically to the color green, 綠 (midori) and グリーン (guriin, from the English word). However, in Japan, although the traffic lights have the same colored lights that other countries have, the green light is called using the same word for blue, "aoi", because green is considered a shade of blue.
Wow that is interesting so I guess that my favorite color would be green then as well?
John
What’s your favorite color? It may be different than you think…
