Idiocy Ad Nauseum
Remember those "Dear Master of the Universe" posts I used to write? Well that is SO over. I decided that I don't like writing to non-existent beings after all. It's like sending mail to yourself--completely futile.
Instead I'm going to start a stream entitled Idiocy Ad Nauseum, subject subject to change...
For my first entry: The in-geniousness of crayola crayon colors.
I'm not sure how and why but I ended up on the Crayola website today. More specifically it was their crayola crayon chronology, or as I like to call it: cholornology.
Asides from the overt humor, which is that certain historical colors had to be renamed due to their politically incorrect nature (i.e. Prussian Blue, Flesh -->promptly adjusted post Civil Rights Movement, and Indian Red), I realized something else. Something completely nonsensical.
Allow me to demonstrate in a few flow of logic statements:
- Humans created language in part to effectively describe their surroundings
- The word orange represents a color, as well as the fruit. However carrots are orange but to avoid confusion, we have aptly dubbed it "carrot."
- Now kindly refer back to the crayola page. Take note of certain "colors" after 1989, particuarly 1990-1992.
- E.g.s you should be looking for: Neon Carrot, Wild Watermelon, Maize, and Razzle Dazzle Rose.
First of all, what color is watermelon? Are they really creating a circular reference in language by using the very objects we couldn't assign a color equivalent name to label a color?
On the one hand it is arguably an excellent educational tool for children (Unless you're Ralph Wiggum). But from a logical perspective, this is just silly.
Instead I'm going to start a stream entitled Idiocy Ad Nauseum, subject subject to change...
For my first entry: The in-geniousness of crayola crayon colors.
I'm not sure how and why but I ended up on the Crayola website today. More specifically it was their crayola crayon chronology, or as I like to call it: cholornology.
Asides from the overt humor, which is that certain historical colors had to be renamed due to their politically incorrect nature (i.e. Prussian Blue, Flesh -->promptly adjusted post Civil Rights Movement, and Indian Red), I realized something else. Something completely nonsensical.
Allow me to demonstrate in a few flow of logic statements:
- Humans created language in part to effectively describe their surroundings
- The word orange represents a color, as well as the fruit. However carrots are orange but to avoid confusion, we have aptly dubbed it "carrot."
- Now kindly refer back to the crayola page. Take note of certain "colors" after 1989, particuarly 1990-1992.
- E.g.s you should be looking for: Neon Carrot, Wild Watermelon, Maize, and Razzle Dazzle Rose.
First of all, what color is watermelon? Are they really creating a circular reference in language by using the very objects we couldn't assign a color equivalent name to label a color?
On the one hand it is arguably an excellent educational tool for children (Unless you're Ralph Wiggum). But from a logical perspective, this is just silly.
posted by Mix at 11:25 PM
1 Comments:
If that's like sending mail to yourself, then wouldn't that make you god?
I think teachers have gone a little too far with this one ... if they were truly teachers at heart they would use that opportunity to teach kids about Indians and Prussians and make them aware of the multiple interpretations and usages of language instead of just trying to make stereotypes go away (which is an impossibility because our minds are making judgements every second of every minute).
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