Re: more on adjectives
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 5, 2001, 6:15 |
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David Peterson wrote:
>
> Yes, other orders are valid. Why not an old, stupid, white, black
> hunting dog? The problem with the specific adjectives you chose is
> that there's a fixed expression "stupid old", or "stupid ol'", so it
> will inevitably sound like they go together, and there's also a fixed
> expression "black-and-white", so it will feel like black should always
> come before white.
But even "Black and white stupid old hunting dog" doesn't sound unmarked
to me. That would seem to me to be emphasizing the color.
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