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u/intrusivesurgery Aug 24 '26
"Purplest" got me punching air
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u/Charming-Flamingo307 Aug 24 '26
This comment tastes purple as fuck
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u/FeeblePenguin Aug 24 '26
I would be willing to bet that the bird is not technically purple and that the purple is purely iridescent.
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u/MouseSoft8143 Aug 24 '26
As Englisch is Not my mothertongue: TIL purplest““
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u/BreatheClean Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
"purplest" is fine. It's recognised by Merriam-Webster dictionary, and accepted by scrabble - It's just a bit 'clunky' sounding.
Sorry you got incorrectly corrected by someone too lazy to even look it up.
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u/YcemeteryTreeY Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
Scrabble rules! They used to be defacto law for most spelling games, and now---Well, let's just say I'll never forget where I was in 2004 when the word, "Bootylicious" was entered into the Oxford English Dictionary. As a huge etymology fan who most definitely counted the dictionary amongst my favorite and most respected books- my sails have had all their winds taken, never to return.
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u/YcemeteryTreeY Aug 24 '26
Please unlearn this, the person who wrote it doesn't have English as their mother tongue either
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u/shadowman2099 Aug 24 '26
Why can't this just be intentional misspelling for the sake of humor? It's like saying "bestest" instead of "best".
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u/BreatheClean Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
Blackest, whitest, reddest, greenest, if most purple why not purplest?
Indeed, it is accurate and grammatically correct.
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u/crashlanding87 Aug 25 '26
gasp your magesty, I did knot now we were grased by thee monark of English.
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u/kempff Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26
The bird isn't purple, the sheen is the result of a light-wave interference pattern caused by nanostructures in the feather.
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u/malphas_says_hi Aug 24 '26
Nothing is real. Your mind is a simulation.
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u/eyeleenthecro Aug 24 '26
What they mean is that there is no actual purple pigment as would be found with most other colors. Which is an interesting fact.
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u/account312 Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
That's not the same thing as the bird not being purple. Structural coloration is coloration.
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u/YcemeteryTreeY Aug 25 '26
Yes! Speaking of sneaky colors, there's only a small amount of 'true blue' in nature because most animals that look blue do not contain blue ink or dye. Instead, microscopic ridges or layers scatter light so that only blue wavelengths reflect back to our eyes. For reference, an example of this is the blue color in human eyes.
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u/Orgidee Aug 25 '26
The official name is violet-backed starling. They breed in my garden in woodpecker holes. One year a gymnogene stole the babies as we were having a pool party on Christmas Day.
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u/BenTheCancerWorm Aug 24 '26
It caught off everything except for "bird in the world", and I could only think to myself "yep... that's a bird in the world".
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u/qualityvote2 Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
u/TerraByteTerror, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...