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View submission: What’s the weirdest “unwritten rule” everyone just follows?
it's bizarre, that's all perfectly good english but it sounds almost like gibberish like that, like my brain utterly fails to keep track of the objects qualities properly
Comment by outintheyard at 03/12/2024 at 16:44 UTC
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That must be why so many listings on Amazon sound ridiculous. I am guessing they were written by a non-English speaker and then translated.
Comment by Kesshin_Unmei at 03/12/2024 at 16:42 UTC
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maybe it's a kind of syntax? like, adjective syntax? adjectivial syntax? i dont think adjectivial is a word but it sounds good.
Like, we don't say "apple I the eat", we say "I eat the apple". Do other languages have similar rules on adjective stacking?