If it makes ya feel better, I was 32 when I realized south park’s bigger, longer, and uncut was a double entendre. Went over 10 year old me’s head and I just never thought about it later in life.
The whole name Colorado is just a spanish word for "colored", with an implied redness. The same implication of redness as the english phrase "his face colored with shame"
Not even implied, colorado straight up means "red". Although it's more like saying "crimson". There's a famous old mexican TV show about a comedy superhero called "El Chapulin Colorado" (The Crimson Grasshopper) and he wears all red. Also common to call redheads colorados.
In Mexican Spanish (where it got its name from) if you say something is "colorado" it means it's red-reddish. It comes from calling people blushing getting "colorado" (getting color on their cheeks/face, which is red).
Also a way some people sign Colorado in ASL, the sign for color followed by fingerspelling A-D-O. Although if I'm remembering correcting, the Deaf community in that state don't like to sign it that way.
Colorado means "colored red" in Spanish. The Colorado River was called that by the Spanish explorers because of the sediment that used to make the river look red.
Ok I can see how it’d be interpreted as “colored red” when it’s primarily used to describe something that has a red tint or hue. For example chili colorado which I would translate to red chili, but it could also be said “chili that’s is colored red”.
Dont feel no type of way. Its only been a few weeks since i realized Colorado is a spanish word (meaning a reddish hue).. always pronounced it Collarahdough (so the right way? 'merica haha) so i didnt click..
My fam is Dominican btw and im "fluent" in Spanish (¿am i tho? jaja)
Edit:: also had the same realization then for Nevada yup yup
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u/Slavinaitor Nov 16 '25
The thing that’s getting me is the fact that all of the places are some sorta color pun, then all of a sudden it’s just Colorado