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Pushing back against adjective word order tyranny

Pushing back against adjective word order tyranny

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In correct English, there is a very specific order in which multiple adjectives should be uttered or written.

This thread is for creating a body of message board communication in which adjective word order rules are flouted so that linguistic archaeologists of the future will find evidence here of people refusing to conform and so creating new facts on the ground about the English language.

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Do what now?

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@gambrel said
Do what now?
Your avatar is merely a purple round small disk with a G in the middle.

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@fmf said
Your avatar is merely a purple round small disk with a G in the middle.
That's his G spot right?

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I'll be surprised if that post is still here in the morning 🤔

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I am wearing a silky, loose, old, tight, nice pair of knickers as I type this.

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@beowulf said
That's his G spot right?
G-Spot Tornado

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@FMF

You think mustaches will make a comeback?
Mine is great and i have a square jaw.

Total Western.

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@beowulf said
@FMF

You think mustaches will make a comeback?
Mine is great and i have a square jaw.

Total Western.
You have a black, droopy, long, good moustache?

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@FMF

Wipe, Flush, Poop.

In that order.

A true Viking.

@FMF ya I don't think aliens or future civilizations are going to fall for this... 🤔

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@fmf said
You have a black, droopy, long, good moustache?
More of a Tom Selleck but longer.

Kurt Russell in Wyatt Earp is identical.

It's called "The Hungarian"

Except i don't have those long outstretched curls.

Its complicated 😔

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@beowulf said
@FMF ya I don't think aliens or future civilizations are going to fall for this... 🤔
They will probably be more interested in learning Mandarin, straightforward, good Chinese.

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@beowulf said
More of a Tom Selleck but longer.

Kurt Russell in Wyatt Earp is identical.

It's called "The Hungarian"

Except i don't have those long outstretched curls.

Its complicated 😔
You have a Hungarian, Selleck, outstretched, Russell, longer, identical, moustache??

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@beowulf said
Wipe, Flush, Poop.
These are English, bog-standard, doing, everyday words.

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