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I legitimately had to check to make sure I wasn't in TAN.
Let's stay on topic guys.
Let's stay on topic guys.
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Adjective Order
. Look at these two squares. If you were to describe the one on the left, how would you do it? There should be two words that come to mind when looking at them. What describes the left square in comparison to the right one?
Now that I've stalled enough to give you time to think about it, the left square is red, and it's bigger. So now if you were to point it out to someone, what would you call it?
Well, you'd call it a big, red square obviously. What else is there to call it? Well, I suppose you could call it a red, big square. That doesn't quite sound right though, does it? For whatever reason, we've all agreed on a specific order of describing everything, and yet nobody ever needs to teach it to you. In fact, there is actually eight levels of order.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective#Adjective_order
when jrr tolkien was a child, he wrote a story about a "green great dragon", and his mother told him it had to be a "great green dragon", instead. He said he never understood why that was, and that it kept him from writing stories for a few years, but made him start thinking a lot about language.
there used to be an extra letter in the English alphabet called the thorn, which was used to represent the "th" sound. However, when the printing press was brought over to England from France there didn't exist a typeset with the thorn in it (since the French don't use it). Rather than create one, English printers just used the letter "y" instead, which somewhat resembled the thorn and eventually the thorn stopped being used entirely. And so when you see a shop sign with something like "Ye Olde Cell Phone Carrier" on it you're supposed to pronounce it "the old" not "yee old."
Cant believe a group of men who advocate eating butt would be so picky with their food.
you in the wrong place if you wanna know specificsI wonder what nutrients are left in cremated ashes. I can understand there being chemical elements left over but I want to know the specific nutrients.
cool post but that first one sorta collapsed on itself, how you gone say we describe stuff a certain way without being taught and then proceed to tell us about a kid BEING TAUGHT how to describe a "green great dragon" as a "great green dragon" by his mom.............Adjective Order
. Look at these two squares. If you were to describe the one on the left, how would you do it? There should be two words that come to mind when looking at them. What describes the left square in comparison to the right one?
Now that I've stalled enough to give you time to think about it, the left square is red, and it's bigger. So now if you were to point it out to someone, what would you call it?
Well, you'd call it a big, red square obviously. What else is there to call it? Well, I suppose you could call it a red, big square. That doesn't quite sound right though, does it? For whatever reason, we've all agreed on a specific order of describing everything, and yet nobody ever needs to teach it to you. In fact, there is actually eight levels of order.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective#Adjective_orderwhen jrr tolkien was a child, he wrote a story about a "green great dragon", and his mother told him it had to be a "great green dragon", instead. He said he never understood why that was, and that it kept him from writing stories for a few years, but made him start thinking a lot about language.there used to be an extra letter in the English alphabet called the thorn, which was used to represent the "th" sound. However, when the printing press was brought over to England from France there didn't exist a typeset with the thorn in it (since the French don't use it). Rather than create one, English printers just used the letter "y" instead, which somewhat resembled the thorn and eventually the thorn stopped being used entirely. And so when you see a shop sign with something like "Ye Olde Cell Phone Carrier" on it you're supposed to pronounce it "the old" not "yee old."
The kid stay droppin gems on me.there used to be an extra letter in the English alphabet called the thorn, which was used to represent the "th" sound. However, when the printing press was brought over to England from France there didn't exist a typeset with the thorn in it (since the French don't use it). Rather than create one, English printers just used the letter "y" instead, which somewhat resembled the thorn and eventually the thorn stopped being used entirely. And so when you see a shop sign with something like "Ye Olde Cell Phone Carrier" on it you're supposed to pronounce it "the old" not "yee old."
cool post but that first one sorta collapsed on itself, how you gone say we describe stuff a certain way without being taught and then proceed to tell us about a kid BEING TAUGHT how to describe a "green great dragon" as a "great green dragon" by his mom.............
not sure what exactly you're sayin but John didn't come from English originallyJohn= English
Sean= Irish
Evan=Welsh
Ian=Scottish
Cool fun fact to me.
You just gone not tell us where it comes from then huh?not sure what exactly you're sayin but John didn't come from English originally
not sure what exactly you're sayin but John didn't come from English originally
You just gone not tell us where it comes from then huh?
Nah, now it makes no sense why you tried to associate names with nations of the ukJohn means Yahweh is gracious. I only brought up those names because they are familiar to us in America.
I can also mention:
Juan
Ivan
Johan(Hans)
Yahya= Arabic
also means light of godJohn means Yahweh is gracious. I only brought up those names because they are familiar to us in America.
I can also mention:
Juan
Ivan
Johan(Hans)
Yahya= Arabic
I actually thought it came from the Vikings or Norse from germaic region but it goes further than thatnot sure what exactly you're sayin but John didn't come from English originally
You just gone not tell us where it comes from then huh?
oh its useless now that im on yo head boy..................