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Re:Avoiding the Adjective Fallacy by SideburnsOfDoom on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @12:21PM (#10297398)
> Therefore the rule which says it must be "little old lady" is plain wrong.

This is natural language. One contrived corner-case counter-example doesn't invalidate the general rule.

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Re:Avoiding the Adjective Fallacy by kazinator on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @01:02PM (#10297662)
Right; rather it invalidates the purported generality of the rule (which no serious linguist would assert in the first place).
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