Talk:sky-blue pink

See linked reference for the discussion of the "imaginary colour" sense that has been (erroneously?) removed. Equinox ◑ 17:41, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I changed the definition because the uses I could find of this phrase were describing the sky (or less often other things upon which the sun was shining and the sky was reflecting) taking this colour. Several of them feature people questioning if it's a "real" colour, but since it's an actual colour that real things can be observed as being, it didn't seem right to call it imaginary. There are also two citations where the meaning isn't clear, but ... since it's sometimes a real colour, I'm not sure how one would demonstrate that it wasn't real in other citations. Like, the father saying he isn't racist because "it would have made no difference whether they were green Martians or coloured sky blue pink" probably doesn't expect to see sky-blue pink people, but people also say "I don't care if you're white or black, green or purple", where "green" and "purple" are still real colours even though they're not [natural healthy human] skin colours. - -sche (discuss) 19:59, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The "sky blue pink, with a shade of greeny brown" citation on the linked page, and the "I want the mocha/sky blue pink theme. What? You don't have one?" one at Citations:sky-blue pink, do seem like they might be going for a nonsense color, I just don't know, because when the color can also be a real color, it seems hard to distinguish uses that are flippantly uninterested in what the color word means from ones that intend it to mean nothing / something impossible. Like, I could say someone "had like nine or thirty-two cats", where those aren't imaginary numbers even though I'm obviously not using them to give some specific number. - -sche (discuss) 20:42, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Some discussion of this and other potentially imaginary colours is at Tea room/2018/March. - -sche (discuss) 20:43, 6 March 2018 (UTC)