ShelbyDawn57
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Don’t know if I’ll get in trouble for an Instagram link, but this is informative and kind of funny.
Royal Order of Adjectives
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ronde
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I've never heard of this and my high school English teacher was a stickler for proper usage of everything about English. I don't think the order matters as much as choosing the right adjectives. What bugs me is how social media users appear to have one set of adjectives and adverbs and they're all superlatives. It seems as if we've forgotten about "good", "better", "best", and gone directly to "awesome" and "fantastic". I always wonder what comes after "awesome" on the relative scale of comparisons.
THBGato
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Fucking awesome.
StillStunned
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My wife, a qualified teacher, knows this. I was quite astonished to find out it was a rule. It's as if someone tells you to chew, then swallow, not the other way around. It's all so self-evident to native speakers.
That said, other languages have their own rules that no non-native will ever understand. And there's no way to learn them because the natives don't realise that they're rules.
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alohadave
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It totally does matter. Native speakers never consciously learn it, but when they are out of order, it sounds wrong.
ESL people also may not be taught this.
The first is how it should be, the second sounds wrong.
onehitwanda
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speaking for myself, I far prefer shape to size...
StillStunned
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Unfortunately it's not up to you. The Royals have decided, and they presumably think that size matters more.
onehitwanda
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Fortunately we of the ULA do not believe in Royalty. We do quite enjoy spanking them though. Especially Geraldine, the saucy minx.
SimonDoom
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Be honest. Neither the size nor the shape matters much if the condition doesn't hold up.
ShelbyDawn57
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I'm of the opinion that purpose is getting the raw deal on this list. Size and shape don't matter if the purpose doesn't align...
Comshaw
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I think it's not the size or shape, it's how you use it. Leastwise, that's what I've heard most of my life.
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