06/11/2024
You've probably heard of word orders for adjectives, with the impossible acronym OSASCOMP - opinion-size-age-shape-color-origin-material-purpose Noun, as in "a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife."What's interesting is that this seems to be the case in many languages, and not just Indo-European ones. Apparently it has something to do with how close the adjectives are to the noun. An adjective denoting an opinion is not as close to the noun as its purpose.
Why it’s a “huge fuzzy blanket” and not a “fuzzy huge blanket.”