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Im curious if anyone has looked at examples of writing that have short sentences or phrases around the adjectives for example: When I was a child we would visi
by sophacles 12y ago
Im curious if anyone has looked at examples of writing that have short sentences or phrases around the adjectives for example:
When I was a child we would visit grandma's farm. There was a barn there I loved to explore. It was big, it was red, it smelled of hay and had been abandoned for years.
vs
The big red hay-scented abandoned barn.
And if the phrases follow the ordering rules as much as strings of adjectives. Further, if there was a strong correlation, what would that say to us about language and maybe even brain structure?
It would be interesting as well to know if that construct, which comes to mind as a way to highlight intentionally out of order adjectives, is actually used that way commonly or I'm just cherry picking random examples in my head.