Re: Adjective page
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 8, 2001, 5:51 |
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In a message dated 9/7/2001 3:48:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
fortytwo@GDN.NET writes:
> Replacing "handsome" with "beautiful", I found that I slightly prefer "A
> beautiful slim Canadian snowboarder" to "A slim beautiful Canadian
> snowboarder".
>
Not I; it'd remain "slim, beautiful" for me. And as for the commas, aren't
they absolutely, strictly, uncompromisingly necessary? That's what I was
taught--in every language I've ever studied, no less (formally, that is).
-David
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