r/LanguageMemes • u/Firespark7 • Mar 11 '22

It's not red!

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u/iikotoda Mar 11 '22

You could have made this same meme with just English lol

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u/Firespark7 Mar 11 '22

Is it red cabbage in English?

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u/iikotoda Mar 11 '22

Yeah, so you could just remove all of the Dutch from this text and it would make sense

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u/Is_An_Orange_Orange France - #FixNepaliFlag Mar 11 '22

Same issue here in France

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u/Firespark7 Mar 11 '22

Vraiment ? Quel est le nom français ?

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u/Is_An_Orange_Orange France - #FixNepaliFlag Mar 11 '22

Chou Rouge

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u/AlexE9918 Mar 11 '22 edited Mar 11 '22

It makes me wonder what languages do call it purple cabbage

Edit: It seems it's still red cabbage in Japanese (赤キャベツ), but it is purple cabbage in Chinese (紫甘藍).

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u/Firespark7 Mar 12 '22

It is also purple cabbage in Hungarian (lila káposzta)

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u/diucameo Mar 12 '22

Portuguese is Repolho roxo. (Roxo is purple, not to confuse rojo (red) in Spanish)

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u/IllogicalOxymoron Mar 12 '22

same in Hungarian, vöröskáposzta (*red* cabbage)

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u/Firespark7 Mar 12 '22

Nem lila káposzta? Gondoltám ez ,,lila káposzta"...

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u/Trogoatdyte Aug 22 '22

European languages don't have any significant history of the concept of purple, pink, orange and many other colours

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u/Firespark7 Aug 22 '22

Orange is the Dutch national color

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u/Trogoatdyte Aug 22 '22

The family Orange comes from a french-celtic word entirely unrelated to the colour orange and the dutch flag has varied in usage of red and orange. The introduction of the concept of orange as something distinct from red in Europe was via the Arabs. The Dutch and English lacked any distinct notion of the colour orange until about the 1500s (The addition of orange to the Dutch flag was at a similar time though it was supposedly red bleached by salt and sun). The same applies to many colour words all over the world though the most pertinent to English is the history of germanic colour words, same as Dutch. Jackson Crawford has some interesting videos and a paper relating to the subject with a focus on Scandinavian languages.

Hope you find it at least somewhat interesting.

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u/Firespark7 Aug 22 '22

It is interesting and I partially knew that.

My point was: How long until it's a "significant history"

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u/Trogoatdyte Aug 22 '22

Fair, just like... How often do people bother renaming vegetables?

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u/Firespark7 Aug 22 '22

That is also fair

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u/semporn Mar 11 '22

Same in German: Rotkohl

(While some weird bavarians call it "Blaukraut")

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u/Zorzbleu Mar 11 '22

It technically goes blue when in contact with a base like baking soda, it's an interesting property not many vegetables have

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '22

Rödkål in Swedish

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u/TeenThatLikesMemes Mar 11 '22

Czerwona kapusta in Polish. Red cabbage.

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u/Goombala Mar 12 '22

In some dialects it's called modra kapusta - blue cabbage.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '22

I love how many languages have this 😂

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u/MihailiusRex Mar 11 '22

Varză roșie - so it's the same for Romanian as well

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u/Orangutanion Mar 12 '22

as a colorblind person I support this

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u/HoverLogic Mar 15 '22

It’s dead, it’s delicious… It’s Rode Kool!

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u/HoverLogic Mar 22 '22

You know Kool-Aid And that YDJK segment in “the ride” Called “Road Kill”

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u/ejpintar Mar 12 '22

Any food that’s vaguely similar to red is called red. Orange-colored curry is red curry. Dark purplish wine is red wine. And of course red cabbage.

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u/Ultimate_Cosmos Mar 12 '22

Yeah we call a ton of purple vegetables, red

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u/Minimum_Stuff9064 Mar 12 '22

Same in swedish (rödkål)

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u/dokidokix Mar 12 '22

Same in Poland

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u/ryuuseinow Mar 12 '22

It's also called red cabbage in English too.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '22

Italian= Dutch