{"id":1796,"date":"2009-11-28T22:41:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T22:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2009-11-28T22:41:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T22:41:26","slug":"pink-is-light-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/pink-is-light-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink is light red!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nBlue and pink cupboards<\/a>
\nOriginally uploaded by viralbus<\/a>
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Phyllis was taught as a kid that red and pink should not be worn together.<\/p>\n

If this is common knowledge in the English-speaking world, I’ll warrant a guess that the designer of these cupboards wasn’t from here.<\/p>\n

However, if the designer was Danish, the colour scheme becomes understandable:<\/p>\n

In Danish, the cupboard on the left is m\u00f8rkebl\u00e5<\/i> “dark blue” and lysebl\u00e5<\/i> “light blue” (so no surprises there!), while the one on the right is m\u00f8rker\u00f8d<\/i> “dark red” and lyser\u00f8d<\/i> “light red”.<\/p>\n

In other words, Danish for “pink” is “light red”, so to a native Danish speaker the cupboard is painted in two shades of the same colour, just like the blue one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blue and pink cupboards Originally uploaded by viralbus Phyllis was taught as a kid that red and pink should not be worn together. If this is common knowledge in the English-speaking world, I’ll warrant a guess that the designer of these cupboards wasn’t from here. However, if the designer was Danish, the colour scheme becomes understandable: In Danish, the cupboard on the left is m\u00f8rkebl\u00e5 “dark blue” and lysebl\u00e5 “light blue” (so no surprises there!), while the one on the right is m\u00f8rker\u00f8d “dark red” and lyser\u00f8d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}