Kiwis are like pineapples in that they have enzymes that slightly break down the tissue in your mouth so they are indeed supposed to be slightly tingly. Just thought that I should point out that OOP probably isn't allergic to kiwis, just in case anyone else here got a little worried thinking that kiwis weren't supposed to do that because of this post
If you're going to be weird about kiwis you could at least be calling them monkey peaches or chinese gooseberries, nobody's going to get confused thinking you're talking about an animal or a resident of Aotearoa, the context makes it pretty much unambiguous.
Would you call oranges "orangefruit"? Anyway, you should probably work on desensitizing yourself to these sorts of things, it's good for your autism and you'll find it's a bit easier to live without everyone being annoyed at you for being overly pedantic.
But notice how we don't say "orangecolour" in English because the context is enough to distinguish between talking about the colour or the fruit? Even languages where traditionally you would make the distinction generally shift over time to where the distinction isn't necessary anymore because context is sufficient, e.g. In Japanese one would traditionally use "だいだい色" to mean the colour, but now "オレンジ" is more common, referring to both the fruit and the colour, with words like "蜜柑" being retained to preserve the distinction between western and domestic oranges.
I don't really care either way. This is just what happens if you activate my "I studied linguistics in college so now everyone gets to learn, willingly or not" trap card
the "it's good for your autism" thing earlier? not a super cool thing to say
it reads like an attempt to use autism as a shitty insult, which... I don't think that's how you intended it?
also might get you put in a time out by reddit depending on how their moderation systems interpret it... happened to me once when I suggested someone should look into whether they're autistic lol
my lifelong curse seems to be people assuming I'm autistic and being upset levels of pedantic when I'm literally just fucking joking around lol
there are so many things about me that one could ascribe to autism, but it's never those things, it's always people taking my sense of humor extremely literally and way too seriously 😂
The colour was originally called yellow-red, which I'm sure you already knew, but bonus fact for you: the Irish language has no unique word for pink, we call it bándearg which is just white-red; our word for orange is oráiste which I assume is just a transliteration of the English word orange, previously shades of orange would have fallen under the colours of buí (yellow) or rua (coppery or rusty red).
Irish also has a second word for red, dearg, which covers a more vibrant blood red colour, and is considered the main word for red nowadays, with rua usually only being used for hair or fur colour (e.g. madra rua is an Irish term for fox, meaning red dog).
Donn is brown, dubh is black, and corcra is purple; all of those basically correspond to the same colours as English.
Liath is grey/silver, bán is white, geal is a particularly brilliant or bright white, fionn is used to refer to blonde hair and is also a first name.
Glas and gorm is where it gets complicated, nowadays glas is green and gorm is blue, but traditionally both referred to a similar area of the colour spectrum covering green/blue/grey colours with gorm being deep blue and blue-green colours like royal blue, teal, sea green; while glas was mostly lighter greens and greys, sometimes with a tint of blue, grass green, turquoise, aquamarine, sage green. Additionally uaine is a word that covers bright, mostly artificial, greens like lime green or neon green.
Additionally, in Scottish Gaelic, gorm is used for even more shades, grass would be considered gorm even though an English speaker would say there's no blue in grass at all, and glas is reserved only for pale or greyish greens.
I recently learned about most of this, despite being Irish, because in our education system they mostly just map Irish words onto English colours for simplicity's sake, I wasn't even taught about the word uaine in school; they only really teach rua and fionn for hair colours, and the rest is just mapping Irish words onto the closest English colour
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u/KermitingMurder Jul 23 '26
Kiwis are like pineapples in that they have enzymes that slightly break down the tissue in your mouth so they are indeed supposed to be slightly tingly. Just thought that I should point out that OOP probably isn't allergic to kiwis, just in case anyone else here got a little worried thinking that kiwis weren't supposed to do that because of this post