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Re:Complete Introduction to Particles in Japanese by cecilpl2 on Saturday August 27, 2022 @02:55PM (#32621946)
Can I call it a green whittling rectangular little silver French old lovely knife? This makes no sense.

Clearly it's the lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. Any minor reordering of these adjectives just sounds innately wrong.

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Re:Complete Introduction to Particles in Japanese by glandium on Saturday August 27, 2022 @06:37PM (#32623959)
What's interesting to me is that I'm not a native, I don't know the exact rules for these things, and yet, the first one somehow sounds wrong to me.
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Re:Complete Introduction to Particles in Japanese by wizofaus on Sunday August 28, 2022 @07:51AM (#32627646)
"Innately"? If that were true all languages would be the same.
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Re:Complete Introduction to Particles in Japanese by tomjakubowski on Saturday August 27, 2022 @04:10PM (#32622704)
Whatever you do, never flash your lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife in front of Crocodile Dundee. He'll give you a sharp rejoinder.
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