Kottke:
From Mark Forsyth’s The Elements of Eloquence, a reminder of the rules of adjective order that fluent English speakers follow without quite knowing why.
I read this on Twitter over the weekend and couldn’t wrap my mind around it. As Kottke says, “Did anyone learn this in school? I sure didn’t. How do we all know then?” Good question.
There are millions of colloquialisms and conventions that we learn by living in any given culture. Far too many to put in schoolbooks. Why is that so surprising?
I’m not sure who thinks it’s surprising instead of interesting. 🙂
I can have a:
lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife.
A:
little old lovely rectangular green French silver whittling knife
Or:
little old lovely green rectangular French silver whittling knife
Maybe a:
little old lovely green rectangular silver French whittling knife
And so on, with variations ad nauseam. Eventually it becomes like a word you say over and over agin until none of it makes sense. Is it French silver or green French silver?
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