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Following the standard adjective order in english, shouldn’t it be “mutant teenage ninja turtles”?
#linguistics #english #teenageMutantNinjaTurtles #TMNT #adjectiveOrder #adjectives #wordOrder -
Schöne Daten zu Farbadjektiven in Teeveranstaltung: "grüner weißer Tee", "echter schwarzer Tee" (da deutsch "schwarzer Tee" ja chinesischem rotem Tee entspricht), und noch der Hinweis das Roibusch Tee (also KEIN Tee :)) manchmal als "roter Tee" bezeichnet wird.
NB: bei den grünen weißen Tees interessanterweise beides mal die Herstellungsart gemeint, nicht die Farbe.
#adjectiveOrder #German #semanticTransparency -
#AdjectiveOrder: definitely a #GrammarRule I didn’t know I knew.
#ReadersDigest tells us:
Native English speakers naturally list adjectives in this order:
1. Opinion
2. Size
3. Age
4. Shape
5. Color
6. Origin
7. Material
8. Purposehttps://www.rd.com/article/adjective-order-rules/
So we can talk about a gorgeous small old concave blue Italian ceramic cooking pot, but not a concave old Italian blue gorgeous cooking ceramic small pot.
Who knew? Did you?
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#AdjectiveOrder: definitely a #GrammarRule I didn’t know I knew.
#ReadersDigest tells us:
Native English speakers naturally list adjectives in this order:
1. Opinion
2. Size
3. Age
4. Shape
5. Color
6. Origin
7. Material
8. Purposehttps://www.rd.com/article/adjective-order-rules/
So we can talk about a gorgeous small old concave blue Italian ceramic cooking pot, but not a concave old Italian blue gorgeous cooking ceramic small pot.
Who knew? Did you?
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#AdjectiveOrder: definitely a #GrammarRule I didn’t know I knew.
#ReadersDigest tells us:
Native English speakers naturally list adjectives in this order:
1. Opinion
2. Size
3. Age
4. Shape
5. Color
6. Origin
7. Material
8. Purposehttps://www.rd.com/article/adjective-order-rules/
So we can talk about a gorgeous small old concave blue Italian ceramic cooking pot, but not a concave old Italian blue gorgeous cooking ceramic small pot.
Who knew? Did you?
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#AdjectiveOrder: definitely a #GrammarRule I didn’t know I knew.
#ReadersDigest tells us:
Native English speakers naturally list adjectives in this order:
1. Opinion
2. Size
3. Age
4. Shape
5. Color
6. Origin
7. Material
8. Purposehttps://www.rd.com/article/adjective-order-rules/
So we can talk about a gorgeous small old concave blue Italian ceramic cooking pot, but not a concave old Italian blue gorgeous cooking ceramic small pot.
Who knew? Did you?
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#AdjectiveOrder: definitely a #GrammarRule I didn’t know I knew.
#ReadersDigest tells us:
Native English speakers naturally list adjectives in this order:
1. Opinion
2. Size
3. Age
4. Shape
5. Color
6. Origin
7. Material
8. Purposehttps://www.rd.com/article/adjective-order-rules/
So we can talk about a gorgeous small old concave blue Italian ceramic cooking pot, but not a concave old Italian blue gorgeous cooking ceramic small pot.
Who knew? Did you?