In theory, all linguistics are descriptive, no gods, no masters, but in reality rules exist to avoid confusion and by disrespecting the order you risk confusing the listener by implying that some combo of adj + noun exists as a seprate term when it doesn’t
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Oh, no, it’s wrong grammatically too, they just don’t teach this unless you study linguistics. Most of all languages with fixed word order and some others have a natural order of adjectives. Tom Scott has a great vid about it.
Yes, Russian has an adjective order too. “A big old blue car” would be «большая старая синяя машина», saying «синяя большая старая машина» implies that “big old car” is a specific term.
Съешь ещё этих мягких французских булок, да выпей чаю
Heard it in Russian a while ago, it’s one of the classics. Here’s another one:
A guy walks in a pub, sits at the table and orders a pint and a thimble of beer. Bartender gets him a pint and asks why he needs a thimble of beer. “Hold on a sec”, — replies the guy, putting an inch long little man onto the table from his pocket: “Jack, tell him about the time you told the wizard to go fuck himself”
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•"You can't out train a bad diet" and "you can't out earn bad spending habits" what are some other true clichés along the same lines as these?
2·5 months agoYou either budget your time reasonably, or let the exhaustion do it for you.
It sometimes feels like you can do 200% of what you can normally on your “prime”, but the reality is closer to 120% + exhausted enough to make the original task smaller. And often the way you shrink/drop original tasks isn’t as good as if you do it beforehand.


I go to a bar whenever I’m in another city, easiest way to make quick acquaintances and get the vibe for the place. Heck, I’m drinking less now, so I’d get a non-alcoholic or a mocktail and still have a decent time. It’s not about drinking.