From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Mar 14 11:36:19 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 14 Mar 2002 19:36:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 65574 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2002 19:36:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Mar 2002 19:36:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (216.27.131.50) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Mar 2002 19:36:17 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2EJaEL21924 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:36:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:36:13 -0500 (EST) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] color In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1138703 X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > la pycyn cusku di'e > > >(what the hell is cyan?) > > Cyan was the default background colour on my > first computer, a Vic-20, 1982 or thereabouts. > I remember the keyboard had one colour assigned > to each number key, though I don't remember which > to which. I will never forget "cyan" thanks to the > Vic-20, although I have never had an occasion to > use the word otherwise... You would if you were in graphics. It is one of the printing primaries, along with Yellow, Magenta, and Black (hence, the acronym "CMYK"). -- Somewhere in America there is an idiot whining about the fact that he has to learn to cursor around the menu system on his VCR, while an 8 year old is installing FreeBSD in his free time.