So aside from adjective (adjectival?) order I'd like to see better usage of
the hyphen. Such as big-eyed, brown dog and brown-eyed, big dog.
We can move on to the Oxford comma later.
Jez
On 12 August 2014 06:16, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I suppose because we normally qualify objects like that, with size coming
> first. If you have a convention like that it's easier to emphasise an
> extraordinary situation by changing the order.
>
> But I have no problem with analysing such conventions, but the article was
> simplistic in the way many such articles turn out. It reminded me of US
> news programmes. At a certain stage in the programme they have to have
> their light-hearted news story, so one news reader turns to the other and
> says something like, "I bet if I said 'brown big dog' to you, Jim, you
> would be a little surprised, because you see . . ." and the other would
> express humorous surprise and turn to the camera with some witty quip with
> which to end the programme.
>
> A similar technique is used at the end of pretty well any weekly programme
> in the mould of "Murder she wrote.": it has to end with a joke with the
> whole cast smiling. It's ghastly, and the idea is catching on Over Here :-(
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 11 Aug 14, at 22:02, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > I agree... but why?
> >
> > On 8/11/2014 12:45 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> >> That order could be changed, John, although it would look and sound odd.
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >> On 10 Aug 14, at 21:25, John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> big brown dog !
> >>
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