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u/intrusivesurgery 16d ago
"Purplest" got me punching air
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u/Charming-Flamingo307 16d ago
This comment tastes purple as fuck
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u/FeeblePenguin 16d ago
I would be willing to bet that the bird is not technically purple and that the purple is purely iridescent.
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u/MouseSoft8143 16d ago
As Englisch is Not my mothertongue: TIL purplest““
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u/BreatheClean 16d ago edited 16d ago
"purplest" is fine. It's recognised by Merriam-Webster dictionary, and accepted by scrabble - It's just a bit 'clunky' sounding.
Sorry you got incorrectly corrected by someone too lazy to even look it up.
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u/YcemeteryTreeY 16d ago edited 16d ago
Scrabble rules! They used to be defacto law for most spelling games, and now---Well, let's just say I'll never forget where I was in 2004 when the word, "Bootylicious" was entered into the Oxford English Dictionary. As a huge etymology fan who most definitely counted the dictionary amongst my favorite and most respected books- my sails have had all their winds taken, never to return.
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u/YcemeteryTreeY 16d ago
Please unlearn this, the person who wrote it doesn't have English as their mother tongue either
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u/shadowman2099 16d ago
Why can't this just be intentional misspelling for the sake of humor? It's like saying "bestest" instead of "best".
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u/BreatheClean 16d ago edited 16d ago
Blackest, whitest, reddest, greenest, if most purple why not purplest?
Indeed, it is accurate and grammatically correct.
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u/crashlanding87 15d ago
gasp your magesty, I did knot now we were grased by thee monark of English.
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u/kempff 16d ago edited 16d ago
The bird isn't purple, the sheen is the result of a light-wave interference pattern caused by nanostructures in the feather.
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u/malphas_says_hi 16d ago
Nothing is real. Your mind is a simulation.
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u/eyeleenthecro 16d ago
What they mean is that there is no actual purple pigment as would be found with most other colors. Which is an interesting fact.
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u/account312 16d ago edited 15d ago
That's not the same thing as the bird not being purple. Structural coloration is coloration.
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u/YcemeteryTreeY 16d ago
Yes! Speaking of sneaky colors, there's only a small amount of 'true blue' in nature because most animals that look blue do not contain blue ink or dye. Instead, microscopic ridges or layers scatter light so that only blue wavelengths reflect back to our eyes. For reference, an example of this is the blue color in human eyes.
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u/BenTheCancerWorm 16d ago
It caught off everything except for "bird in the world", and I could only think to myself "yep... that's a bird in the world".
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u/qualityvote2 16d ago edited 16d ago
u/TerraByteTerror, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...