But arguing about how red a Bloodred is will not resolve anything. I'd think that if they can ask what diffuse means, they can ask how red the Bloodreds are.
The point isn't even involving red at this point. It's becoming more and more obvious that the more or less co-dominant pattern trait found in bloodreds isn't linked to the red. The pattern itself needs a name. Bloodreds will still be bloods, regardless of whether they are bright red, coagulated red, motor oil red, or candy-apple-cherry-berry-pistachio-red. A pewter is a pewter is a pewter. An *insert name here* will be an anery 'blood' and an *insert another name here* will be a lavender 'blood', but it'd sure be nice (especially when giving a talk on corn morphs or teaching newcomers to the hobby) to have a name descriptive of the pattern. Take motley, stripe, Aztec, zigzag, striped motley, cubed motley, banded, patternless stripe, etc....none of these are "color" names because they have nothing to do with the color, per se.
My personal favorite is the "Uh.....huh." look I get when beginning the explanation to a novice about the 'bloodreds' that aren't. This is usually followed up with the, "Yeah, YOU know what you're talking about, yuh-huh" look. Makes for a long and animated conversation, sure, but wouldn't it be easier to just have to say, "And this is the **** trait, see how it blends the sides, clears the belly, yadda," without having to add the paragraph-plus explaining, "yes, I know it's not red, but that's how it originally started..." and "...yeah, well, the original snakes WERE red, well not the red you're thinking of, but clotted blood red..." and "...well yeah, you see we in the corn world use name bloodred to mean a pattern..." and on and on. Bloodred is just such an extreme color name. It's not just red, it's holy mama BLOOD red. (It's not just red, it's candy apple red....it's not just orange, it's hazard hunter's orange.) Having a color name for a pattern doesn't sit well with me anyway, so having such a specific, insistant-upon-the-color name just seems....well, silly, I guess, for lack of a better word.
The term bloodred and its incongruent usage for the pattern itself instantly puts doubt in the mind of the new person and either makes them wonder about your intelligence (until you prove you know your stuff) or makes them believe "oh, I'll never understand all this genetics stuff, it's so confusing." Neither situation is necessary if we just give a name to the
pattern. It makes us look like we are trying to be responsible in our naming practices and makes us look more professional than the ball python world with their "morphs".