Okay, this adjective thing is bullshit. I got a perfect SAT score and a 5 on AP English without any prep or study, and I’ve edited a novel as well as other writing. You can put adjectives in whatever order you want; none of you learned this nonsense and you all grew up in totally different places. Every school exercise ever emphasized that your adjectives should be ordered for emphasis and/or flow, in the case of more artistic composition. You can have an angry, orange, fluffy cat, but you could also have a fat, sleepy, striped cat. It’s up to you. It’s up to why you are writing your adjectives. This makes me so mad; is this some new Common Core scheme?
@chaotik_lord Okay, for one, bragging about doing well without studying was pretty unnecessary as it doesn't lend any credence to your statement. Second, folks are perfectly able to learn new things about subjects they excel in. For example, I recall when my high-school English teacher learned that "they" is also a valid pronoun for a single person.
Speaking of my teacher, lets use that as an example. "My English high-school teacher" and "my high-school English teacher" use the same words, but have different meanings. One is "the person who taught me in high-school came from England" and the other is "the person who taught me the subject of English during high-school".
Theres plenty of situations where it doesnt exactly change the meaning, but it just sounds clunky. "The big brown cow" is correct, and "the brown big cow" is not. So, sure, you *can* use whatever order you please. I mean, you could write without vowels if you really wanted to. But no, that doesnt mean its correct.
This is something that isn't (usually) explictly taught, mind you. Its something that native English speakers simply learn on their own
@chaotik_lord This is also something found in other languages, such as French. This was something I was directly taught in school as well, so its not a completely new idea. French adjectives are listed as: beauty, age, goodness, size. But that list doesnt work with English, so when translating a French phrase, you'd have to re-order the words to make it make complete sense.
@chaotik_lord TL;DR: you arent some sort of Master of English because you did well on some tests, and you shouldn't act like you have the authority to discredit the Royal Order of Adjectives, because its a very real thing
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