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		batista on June 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How we gave colors names and it messed with our br... Yes. Pink to my eyes is a kind of watered down red. Do you consider it any more different? Ie the kind of difference you get from purple vs yellow, or red vs green?

sp332 on June 17, 2012 [–]

Pink doesn't just include watered-down reds but also some colors I can't see as red at all, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_pink#Hot_pink

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