Re: more on adjectives

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:54:49 -0400 "Douglas Koller, Latin & French"
<latinfrench@...> writes:
> While it's clear that there is a grammatical mechanism in place
> here,
> I don't think it makes for great style (there's nothing in the
> formula that says we're obliged to use all of them at once). Beyond
> "itsy-bitsy teny-weeny yellow polka dot bikini", "...purple people
> eater" (don't remember all the modifiers on that one [four-armed?
> five-eyed?] -- a little before my time) and other utterances used
> for
> humorous effect, how often such long adj. strings occur? And would
> you use them in writing or formal speaking?
> Kou
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"one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater"?


-Stephen (Steg)
 "verbing weirds language."  ~  calvin (& hobbes)

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