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You use the word intuit as a verb where I would go old school and use "understands it intuitively". You slap a letter s on the end to make the word sound corre

You use the word intuit as a verb where I would go old school and use "understands it intuitively". You slap a letter s on the end to make the word sound correct to your ear. I will eventually use the word intuits in the same way you do but it will jar for a while. However it is concise and conveys the same meaning as "understand intuitively". As you say, language is insane. Now, adjective ordering. I think there is an "official" order but native speakers are not formally taught it because it is largely innate for us. It is likely something taught as a very advanced language feature because you can mix up the order and it still works. I think a few experiments are in order: Dark satanic mills. Jolly green giant. Large blue marble. Long winding road. Darling buds of May. Big fat Greek wedding. OK it looks like: * Emotive (jolly, happy, sad) * Quantitative (big, small, fat, tall, short) * Colour * Shape (winding) * Other adjectives - needs some work * Noun This is going to need more work but there is a bit of a pattern. What I've picked up as emotive probably includes other classes of adjectives

vulcan01 2y ago
> I would go old school and use "understands it intuitively" I wonder if this is a regional difference. The OED claims that intuit as a verb has been in continuous use since the 1860s (at least) and I've heard it used as a verb my entire life (various areas in the US).
- gerdesj 2y ago
  "The OED claims that intuit as a verb has been in continuous use since the 1860s" That's a fair source but I went to a pretty posh school in Oxfordshire! Oxford was about 90p return away by bus from Abingdon in the mid to late 1980s. I studied English to O (Ordinary) level (both language and literature) and bagged a pair of Bs. I might also point out that I also attended schools in Devon, Manchester and multiple places in West Germany (UK Army brat). Obviously, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and I have only my own recollections to go by but I have never knowingly heard intuit as a verb. I have only ever seen it written by Americans (for a given value of America)! I do like it and will fall in line forthwith!

vulcan01 2y ago

> I would go old school and use "understands it intuitively" I wonder if this is a regional difference. The OED claims that intuit as a verb has been in continuous use since the 1860s (at least) and I've heard it used as a verb my entire life (various areas in the US).

gerdesj 2y ago
"The OED claims that intuit as a verb has been in continuous use since the 1860s" That's a fair source but I went to a pretty posh school in Oxfordshire! Oxford was about 90p return away by bus from Abingdon in the mid to late 1980s. I studied English to O (Ordinary) level (both language and literature) and bagged a pair of Bs. I might also point out that I also attended schools in Devon, Manchester and multiple places in West Germany (UK Army brat). Obviously, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and I have only my own recollections to go by but I have never knowingly heard intuit as a verb. I have only ever seen it written by Americans (for a given value of America)! I do like it and will fall in line forthwith!