In Australia, the middle light *is* orange (sometimes called amber) On 30/03/2013 6:01 AM, "Fabrizio Giudici" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:36:37 +0100, Ricky Clarkson < > [email protected]> wrote: > > And the English call it amber, even though traffic lights presumably >> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On a related note, French call the middle light orange, and not yellow. >>> >> > It's fun... After Cédric said the orange thing, I was going to answer that > even in "old" italian (decades ago) the middle light was "orange". I > googled for searching for a reference, and discovered that somebody is > still using "orange" today - to give numbers, 70k results for the italian > equivalent of "semaphore orange" versus 197k results for "semaphore > yellow". Even though I've never heard of it in spoken language. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s. > "We make Java work. Everywhere." > http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/**blog <http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog> - > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > javaposse+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/javaposse?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
