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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.

 

[RetroFan]

Sir James Milne Wilson, Premier of the Australian state of Tasmania from 1869-1872, was a leap-day baby and born on 29th February 1812. He also joined the list of people who died on their birthday when he passed away on his 68th birthday on 29th February 1880.

If making a Venn Diagram on leap-day babies and people who died on their birthdays, the intersection of the two circles would be very slim indeed, and Premier Wilson is the only person I have heard of who occupies it.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Sir James Milne Wilson, Premier of the Australian state of Tasmania from 1869-1872, was a leap-day baby and born on 29th February 1812. He also joined the list of people who died on their birthday when he passed away on his 68th birthday on 29th February 1880.

Surely that would've been his 17th birthday. (Counting his birth as the zero'th birthday, as we usually do.)

 

[mentalmaven]

~1-million traffic cones are stolen every year.

 

[billrokra]

In addition to its many local names, Mount Everest should technically be pronounced 'eevrist' - that's how Sir George Everest pronounced his name.

 

[Comshaw]

I've got 18 stories/chapters above 40k views.

(That's really not that much, compared to *many* others. It's not a brag, it just makes me happy)

Yeah, I have one with 136K views. But before you decide that's a good thing, consider the published date: 12/2000. Yeah, it's been here for almost a 1/4 century, 299 months with about 14.9 views a day. It just goes to show if you hang in long enough there are some bragging rights that come to you.

Comshaw