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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Does green apple count? It feels like an adjective but considering there's "green apple" flavored candy, I'd consider it a part of the noun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I think the name for that variety is Granny Smith. The reason why it isn't called "Granny-Smith-flavored candy" will be left as an exercise for the reader.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Green beans are technically fruits

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even if those leaves were a fruit, they're not called greens. Some kinds of leaves are called that as a general term, but not the ones in the picture. He's wrong on so many levels!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

Is that what he was saying? That's what I was confused about. Those leaves are not greens. They are green, but still everything you said.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Orange, cherry, blackberry, etc.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I'm pretty sure orange and cherry are named after the fruit, but Blackberry is true.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah it's inspired from the phone

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That tracks. Steve Jobs was known for his enjoyment of fruit, to a potentially problematic degree.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Dunno who that is but Tim Apple invented the computer and his ancestors invented the apple (in 196 AD) and just for the record if you think enjoying fruit is problematic you’re probably homophobic or something ¯\(ツ)/¯ iunno go away

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Fun fact: The first logo was going to include Isaac Newton but they hadn’t invented him yet!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (18 children)

Pendants will argue that black is not a colour

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

One might ask Crayola.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Physicists might argue that, but black is a color linguistically and in common usage; I'd argue that since OP was generally speaking in a linguistic context, linguistic rules override physics pedantry.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 days ago (20 children)

I mean, orange was right there...

[–] [email protected] 125 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Which is a colour named after the fruit iirc

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago

It is! We could use redcurrants, blackcurrants, and blackberries though

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

right on. this tweet is like saying "there's not a single country in africa that starts with the letter K." there obviously is, but it's targeting people who are knowledgable enough to know the answer but not intelligent enough to understand the point of the tweet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

This is how you do engagement bait

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

Just a little fun fact: the color was actually named after the fruit and not the other way around :D

“The word "orange" came into English from the Old French "pomme d'orenge", which referred to the fruit.”

There are still blackberries though…

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Yellow squash

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

Blackberries

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (5 children)
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