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Old 12-11-2021, 10:31 PM   #9
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I'm thinking that ownedbycats is male or identifies as male. Women are more likely to use the more evocative "rose" color.

Although I was (as always) greatly entertained to see assumptions about gender-based language choice result in the facial application of ovate matter, another possibility occurred to me. Irrespective of gender, the use of color names could be influenced by one's L1 - in Indic languages for example, the word for "pink" IS the word for "rose", making it a distinction without a difference.
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