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Of course. The endings and beginnings of all colors are subjective, because colors blend into each other. That was largely my point ever since I first added this trope to {{YKTTW}}. Trying to separate the visible light spectrum into groups is arbitrary, because there are no natural breaks in it. It\'s just one continuous stream. You could split it into groups of three, six, seven, ten, or even one hundred colors, and none of them would be any more correct or incorrect than the others.
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Of course. The endings and beginnings of all colors are subjective, because colors blend into each other. That was largely my point ever since I first added this trope to {{YKTTW}}. Trying to separate the visible light spectrum into groups is arbitrary, because there are no natural breaks in it. It\\\'s just one continuous stream. You could split it into a group of three, six, seven, ten, or even one hundred colors, and none of them would be any more correct or incorrect than the others.
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That\'s also why all these semantics are unnecessary. If a work uses seven colors that follow the spectrum\'s pattern, it counts as an example of this trope. Loading examples with lots of \
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That\\\'s also why all these semantics are unnecessary. If a work uses seven colors that follow the spectrum\\\'s pattern, it counts as an example of this trope. Loading examples with lots of \\\"exceptions\\\" (especially when the work in question doesn\\\'t explicitly say what colors its using) only serves to overcomplicate them and distract from what the trope is actually about.
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That\'s also why all these semantics are unnecessary. If a work uses seven colors that follow the spectrum\'s pattern, it counts as an example of this trope. Loading examples with lots of \
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That\\\'s also why all these semantics are unnecessary. If a work uses seven colors that follow the spectrum\\\'s pattern, it counts as an example of this trope. Loading examples with lots of \\\"exceptions\\\" (especially when the work in question doesn\\\'t explicitly say what colors its using) only serves to overcomplicate them and distract from what the trope is actually about.
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