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CowperKettle

4:34 AM

It will fall to minus 21 C the day after tomorrow. Global warming is too slow for my taste

AIQ

4:48 AM

Any snow?

CowperKettle

5:03 AM

Yes

1 hour later…

AIQ

6:27 AM

I was thinking of answering a question. While doing my research on order of adjectives I came across something that I think is incorrect. Can someone take a look, please? Cambridge - It’s a (4)long, (8)narrow, (10)plastic brush. The numbers indicate the type of adjective.

Second example under the table

dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/…

Anonymous

@AIQ It sounds fine to me. What do you think the order should be?

AIQ

Its saying "narrow" = 8 which is wrong. Eight is material. "narrow" should = 4 = Shape

"plastic" should be 8 and not 10(purpose)

@snailcar

Anonymous

6:56 AM

Oh. I thought you were saying the order of the words was wrong. I didn't actually look at the numbered categories.

Anonymous

But yeah, narrow certainly doesn't seem like a kind of material, does it?

Anonymous

Oof, this is kind of rough. There are a bunch of different attempts to categorize adjective order in English, and I'm not sure there's any consensus on the list of categories or which adjectives belong to those categories in the One True Unmarked Adjective Order.

Anonymous

If you look on Google Scholar for linguistics papers which talk about adjective order, you'll find various approaches.

Anonymous

I kind of wanted to link you to a better resource, but there are so many to choose from.

Anonymous

Overall, that page probably isn't bad, but it does contain some errors as you pointed out, which is unfortunate.

AIQ

7:05 AM

Yes, I am trying to find something else ... I can't use that Cambridge link as a source

Anonymous

Over on English.SE, we've got this:

Anonymous

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A: What is the rule for adjective order?

I am reminded of how J.R.R. Tolkien’s mother once famously corrected him at a very early age when he said ‘a green great dragon’. She told him that it had to be ‘a great green dragon’, but when he asked her why, she couldn’t answer, thereby starting him down the road of puzzling ov...

AIQ

Ah .. thank you very much @snailcar

Anonymous

I think that's the best resource we have for the topic on SE currently.

CowperKettle

9:05 AM

Yes, lots of snow

I need to buy new cleated shoes for running, the pair I have has gotten thin

Anonymous

9:18 AM

Brrr!

AIQ

Are there any mountain lions?

CowperKettle

Maybe in the Zoo, which is about 3 km from my house

I've only seen foxes

I mean, in the wild

AIQ

CowperKettle

))

Anonymous

We actually have mountain lions here.

Anonymous

9:26 AM

They usually stay away from people, but not always.

AIQ

yes here too...

they come here during summer and spring, following the deers

SmokeDetector

9:55 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body (96): Should I use food list or foods list? by Martin Freitag on ell.SE

CowperKettle

@snailcar We have bears, and sometimes there are bear steps visible on the ground

AIQ

10:10 AM

grizzlies?

CowperKettle

10:40 AM

No, brown bears. I only saw footprints

And black bears

Жителей Двуреченска напугали жутким видео с медведем, который загрыз насмерть грибника

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This bear killed a man who was picking mushrooms in the forest near Yekaterinburg

CowperKettle

10:52 AM

Q: What is the common term to express "your shorts are so sagging that people can almost see your butt"?

What is the common term to express "your shorts are so sagging that people can almost see your butt"? My little child is wearing shorts & the rubber band of the shorts is so weak that it can not hold the shorts up. So the shorts are a little sagging on my child butt & everyone can almost see hi...