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i wanted to make a funny observation about the contrast between “nuance” and “shades of gray” if you speak swedish but then i discovered that there was some, ah, nuance i was missing to the swedish word for “nuance”. this is what i love about the world
ok so ”nyans” is the swedish word for “nuance”. it's borrowed from french of course.
i thought that this word meant “hue”, i.e. the property of a colour that red/green/blue/etc distinguish between, as opposed to saturation or brightness… hence shades of grey being funny
@hikari in celebration of the word “nyans”, have a pic of the kitten my partner is currently trying to teach to play fetch
however it turns out that this meaning of the word is possibly a result of modern mistranslations in computer software, or at least we can say that it's a fairly new sense of the word. ”nyans” can actually mean, well, any fine difference between colours on different axes.
we live in a world abundant in nuances, a very colourful world. i love this world.