#spectrum from green to blue and sometimes grey but thats not relevant

[cerealandchoccymilk]

checkmate liberals (re: there is no meaningful distinction between green and blue)

to summarize the video: in japan the traffic lights are called red yellow and blue, and the color for the go signal is also usually vaguely between green and blue (some places apparently have actual BLUE blue lights). this is because in japanese "blue" often signifies the spectrum of colors from green to blue (grass is blue 青い芝生, bok choy uses the kanji for blue 青梗菜/chingensai, green laver/aonori 青海苔 is literally blue seaweed, etc etc). which originates from the fact that in old japan the basic colors were red, blue, black, and white. this also aligns with the evolution of color descriptors in many other languages (old english had a word "hœwen" encompassing green thru blue too).

so the fact that this has stayed for a thousand and however many years (albeit not used as often outside of existing words compared to back then ofc) means that there isnt much of an IMPORTANT difference between green and blue. and the fact that theres so much debate in english over names of greenish blueish colors supports that i think lmao