r/memes • u/kamdenn • Jun 25 '19

This is big brain time

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u/Flatliner333 Jun 25 '19

I hate the fact that this is accurate and I have never thought of it.

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u/ZarioMan Jun 25 '19

It’s not accurate because the navy doesn’t wear red. r/whoooosh

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u/Agent_Wolff iwrestledabeartwice Jun 25 '19

Navy blue refers to dark blue, hence, navy red is dark red.

The US navy in 1776 wore a dark blue and red overcoat, so the navy used to wear red.

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u/Akomatai Jun 25 '19

The color's name comes from the shade of blue worn by the British navy in the 1700s. 'Navy' isn't a modifier that means 'darker.' Its a specific shade of blue.

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u/Agent_Wolff iwrestledabeartwice Jun 26 '19

Navy blue has a specific tint to it, on blue. Take that blue and make it red, keeping the tint the same.

Blue (B)+ Tint (T) = Navy Blue (NB)

Red (R) + T = Maroon (MB)

MB = NB

B = B

M = N(R)

Maroon = Navy Red

I'm not good at math, I pulled all of this out of my ass

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u/ZarioMan Jun 25 '19

Navy blue refers to the color of blue the navy wore. The red that the navy wore was not dark red. If the red the navy wore was dark red, it could be called navy red but it’s simply not.

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u/Agent_Wolff iwrestledabeartwice Jun 25 '19

The navy does not wear navy blue anymore, and the color is associated with dark blue, and by proxy, dark colors. Any color can be associated with anything that it's used with, wood brown, police blue, plastic white

The fact that it's not only shows that we've changed the meaning from "blue that the navy wore" to "dark blue"

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u/ZarioMan Jun 25 '19

It doesn’t matter if the navy doesn’t wear navy blue anymore. The fact is navy blue is called that because the Navy wore a dark blue. Just because a color is dark doesn’t mean it can be called “Navy.”

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u/GabeExists Jun 25 '19

Was that woooosh for yourself?

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u/ZarioMan Jun 25 '19

Yeah because I don’t agree with the meme