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“Give me one of the big balls.” <gives purple ball> “Wait, I actually need a red big ball.”
by SilasX 5y ago
“Give me one of the big balls.”
<gives purple ball>
“Wait, I actually need a red big ball.”
- treeman79 5y agoGave giant balls two pink to kids. One was slightly larger then the other. Life Lesson, either both must be identical, or don’t get.
- msbarnett 5y agoit works but even then, “no sorry, I decided I need the big red ball” feels more natural to me.
- presentation 5y agoOr if a "Big Ball" is a thing, like a brand name lol.
- SilasX 5y agoExactly. My personal hunch is that the supposed "required ordering" of adjectives isn't real, and the real "rule" is related to the tightness by which the adjectives are bound to the noun -- least separable go last. It's just that, in practice the semantic tightness corresponds to that rule. In the extreme case (like you gave) where "BigBall(tm)" is an irreducible thing it itself, then of course "big" goes last.