Lemmy@lemm.ee to Today I learned@lemmy.ml · edit-28 months agoSome owls have skinny long legslemm.eeimagemessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
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minus-squareMasterNerd@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoYou know seeing how you phrased the sentence, I know intuitively that it should be long, skinny legs instead of skinny long legs but I’m not sure why
minus-squareTheHarpyEagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-28 months agoThere’s actually a “proper” order of adjectives in English! https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/In-a-Word/2021/0921/Explaining-the-royal-order-of-adjective-placement It’s not something ever learn directly, but nonetheless we all seem to inherently know it. Why this order? Who knows! It’s one of many weird quirks of our language (and some others). It’s certainly a hard thing for non-native speakers to pick up on.
You know seeing how you phrased the sentence, I know intuitively that it should be long, skinny legs instead of skinny long legs but I’m not sure why
There’s actually a “proper” order of adjectives in English!
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/In-a-Word/2021/0921/Explaining-the-royal-order-of-adjective-placement
It’s not something ever learn directly, but nonetheless we all seem to inherently know it. Why this order? Who knows! It’s one of many weird quirks of our language (and some others). It’s certainly a hard thing for non-native speakers to pick up on.