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[AwkwardMD]

That's 18 more than I have with 40K views (although one is getting close now).

Hell yeah!!

 

[UsuallyPresent]

That's 18 more than I have with 40K views (although one is getting close now).

I’ve got one in that range, from 6 years ago. Energizer bunny, mebbee?

 

[AG31]

Most native speakers do this intuitively but there is a formal order of adjectives in English.

Opinion (e.g., beautiful, amazing)
Size (e.g., big, small)
Age (e.g., old, young)
Shape (e.g., round, square)
Color (e.g., red, blue)
Origin (e.g., Italian, American)
Material (e.g., wooden, plastic)
Purpose (e.g., cooking, sleeping)

What is the orderimg based on?

 

[TheLobster]

Opinion (e.g., beautiful, amazing)
Size (e.g., big, small)

There seem to be a few exceptions to that order when it comes to "big" and "beautiful", like BBW or the Big Beautiful Bill.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

What is the orderimg based on?

It's just the natural structure of the language

Try saying something in the wrong sequence and it will sound wrong to a native speaker.

"A green tiny old spoon"
vs
"A tiny old green spoon."

 

[Kelliezgirl]

There seem to be a few exceptions to that order when it comes to "big" and "beautiful", like BBW or the Big Beautiful Bill.

If there wasn't an exception would it really be English?

 

[MillieDynamite]

Someone, somewhere, is reading something every second of every day of every month of every year.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Orange was not the name of the color in the English language before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit Orange.

Until then the color Orange was referred to as Geoluhread, which was the old English word for red-yellow.


Sort of settles the debate about why Apples aren't called Reds, and Bannanas aren't called yellows.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

The opposite of déjà vu is known as “jamais-vu”. It clarifies the strange sense that one thing very recognizable is actually entirely new.

On the contrary, déjà vu is the overwhelming sense that something entirely new is actually very familiar.

 

[Trionyx]

The Oceanic pole of inaccessibility has always made me deeply uncomfortable.

I thought it was


51°23′16″N9°36′11″W

 

[TheLobster]

I thought a Pole of inaccessibility means a lovely lady from Poland who’s a little too chaste for her own good.

 

[onehitwanda]

I thought it was


51°23′16″N9°36′11″W

That's an ocean of pole inaccessibility, unless you don't mind getting intimate with Kelpies.