* Id: Grenerd * Revision: 1 * State: submitted * * Log: * Revision 1 2000/01/11 Roel van der Meulen * Initial submitted version. Return-path: Received: from pop.argonet.co.uk by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.0.5) for mrs@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:46:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from (strw.strw.LeidenUniv.nl) [132.229.214.2] by golden.argonet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 12822V-0007EQ-00; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:12:51 +0000 Received: from beerze.LeidenUniv.nl (beerze [132.229.214.9]) by strw.strw.LeidenUniv.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA10171 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:12:50 +0100 (MET) Received: by beerze.LeidenUniv.nl (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA03835; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:12:50 +0100 Message-Id: <200001111412.PAA03835@beerze.LeidenUniv.nl> X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Subject: Article Submission: Grenerd From: vdmeulen@strw.leidenuniv.nl (Roel van der Meulen) To: mseaborn@argonet.co.uk Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:12:50 +0100 Envelope-to: mseaborn@argonet.co.uk Delivery-date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:12:54 +0000 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456 %t Grenerd * or do you think "Gred" would be better? %n S %s A Colour %a Roel van der Meulen (vdmeulen@strw.leidenuniv.nl) %d 20000110 %x Colourblindness %i Colour Grenerd, The %i Color Grenerd, The %k Color, Colour, Colourblind, Colorblind, Sandman, Neil Gaiman, Red, Green %e Grenerd is a word that means green and red at the same time. It is a word commonly only known to those colourblind people who can't distinguish between what most other people [1] call "red" and "green" [2]. They use it amongst themselves, as the distinction has no meaning for them anyway. The existence of such a word was revealed in the Sandman comic _The Kindly Ones_ by Neil Gaiman, but the word itself was not mentioned as the secret society of chromatically challenged (CC) punishes revelation with something I cannot reveal else I be punished with something else I cannot reveal. [1] Except the people who make no distinction in their language between blue and green, and thus don't see them as two colours. [2] Or is it just a huge conspiracy of people that just _pretend_ there are two different colours when there is only one, just to irritate? The "red-green defective" will never know... %e *EOA*