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by stooliepidgin 1711 days ago
Maybe related: Why do "red" products (i.e., dyes, paints, markers, pencils, pens) from China appear red-orange? Does it have something to do with language?
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In English, generic "red" used to mean something very close to orange (thus red hair, red-breasted robins, etc.). Blood red or rose red were usually called out. These days, outside of colour spaces, we distinguish between crimson (cold/bluish) and scarlet (warm/orangish) when it actually matters, and the default "red" is somewhere in the middle, probably because we added orange to the lexicon.
You're conflating a range of colors with a single color.

"In the middle" is red. Red is red. It's not red-orange. It's not red-blue.

This reminds me a lot of "I don't have an accent! YOU have an accent!"
They're imitating the color of cinnabar lacquerware.