Re: OT: Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone :)

Carsten Becker wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:49:05 +1100, Tristan McLeay
> <conlang@...> wrote:
>
>>(Incidentally, I don't know French, but I have noticed a bit that
>>adjectives sometimes come before the noun, and sometimes after. Are
>>there rules for when, or are adjective-before just fixed phrases or
>>something?)
>
>
> "grand petit haut gros, ??? joli beau, mauvais digne vilain sot, premier
> dernier et nombreux" are the adjectives that precede a noun we learnt at
> school. But instinctively, there must be many others, mostly the ones that
> have only one or two syllables AFAIK. But better ask a Frenchman about that.
>
This is the rhyme we learned in French class:

Long gros beau
jeune joli haut
petit vieux grand
bon mauvais méchant

which was then supplemented by:
premier, dernier, autre

But indeed, there are still more, as your list of adjectives shows.

René