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leo canonically yellin, "DAMMM GIRLIE GOT A GYATT" at the top of his lungs while riding festus 1000 feet in the air as a gorgon is tryin to lunge at him.

while calypso is sitting behind him rethinking her life choices, leo says "CHILLAX MAMACITA I GOT THISS" and festus blows fire as the gorgon is incinerated midair.

and lester is shaking.

nicothespy

do you have any doodles of Calypso? she finally showed up in the pjo fic I'm writing and I miss her (her being seven foot tall and lowky off-putting)

i painted this rq. currently going through my inbox if you guys cant tell already

zephyrine-gale

happy witch hat atelier day!

nicothespy

today marks the 10 year anniversary of solangelo being canonized!!!

l00106

computah… make them do THAT Challengers scene.

mafuyuh

let's fly with mama

burntcopper

things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.

windycityteacher-deactivated202

WOAH WHAT?

ice-light-red-deactivated201611

That is profound. I noticed this by accident when asked about adjectives by a Japanese student. She translated something from Japanese like “Brown big cat” and I corrected her. When she asked me why, I bluescreened.

moved--306389

What the fuck, English isn’t even my first language and yet I picked up on that. How the fuck. What the fuck.

exomoon

Reasoning: It Just Sounds Right

arkthepieking

Oooh, don’t like that. Nope, I do not even like that a little bit. That’s parting the veil and looking at some forbidden fucking knowledge there.

canthinkofaurl-deactivated20221

How did I even learn this language wtf

titaniumelemental

I had to read “brown big cat” like three times before my brain stopped interpreting it as “big brown cat”

arjan-de-lumens

I’m kinda reading “brown big cat” as “brown (big cat)”, that is, a “big cat” - like a tiger or lion or other felid of similar size - that happens to be brown. “Big brown cat”, on the other hand, sounds more like a brown cat that’s just a bit bigger than a regular housecat - like a bobcat or a maine coon cat or something like that.

the-real-seebs

yeah, a brown big cat is almost certainly a puma. a big brown cat is probably a maine coon.

whetstonefires

yeah, if you put the adjectives out of order you wind up implying a compound noun, which is presumably why we have this rule; we stripped out so much inflection over the centuries word order now dictates a huge amount of our grammar

delphinidin4

Just looked up why we do this and one of the first lines in this article is, “Adjectives are where the elves of language both cheat and illumine reality.” so I know it’s a good article.

Things this article has taught me:

This same order of adjectives more or less applies to languages around the world. “It’s possible that these elements of universal grammar clarify our thought in some way,” says Barbara Partee, a professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Yet when the human race tacitly decided that shape words go before color words go before origin words, it left no record of its rationale.

One theory is that the more specific term always falls closer to the noun. But that doesn’t explain everything in adjective order.

Another theory is that as you get closer to the noun, you encounter adjectives that denote more innate properties. In general, nouns pick out the type of thing we’re talking about, and adjectives describe it,” Partee told me. She observes that the modifiers most likely to sit right next to nouns are the ones most inclined to serve as nouns in different contexts: Rubber duck. Stone wall.

Rules are made to be broken. Switching up the order of adjectives allows you to redistribute emphasis. (If you wish to buy the black small purse, not the gray one, for instance, you can communicate your priorities by placing color before size). Scrambling the order of adjectives also helps authors achieve a sense of spontaneity, of improvising as they go. Wolfe discovers such a rhythm, a feeling-his-way quality, when he discusses his childhood recollection of “brown tired autumn earth” and a “flat moist plug of apple tobacco.”

Brain scans have discovered that your brain has to work harder to read adjectives in the “wrong” order.

TL;DR: No one knows why we do this adjective thing but it’s pretty hardwired in.

cuzosu-blog

@deadcatwithaflamethrower Linguistics tidbit.

han100894

huh…

petermorwood

More interesting additions to this ongoing topic.

NB, if concerned by the doings of the elves of language, keep an iron nail in your pen-pot… ;->

damdemigodishness

things i instinctively know- like how i dont think about breathing, but i need it- instead of intuitively. wow.

catchymemes

st4ry3mi

nico di angelo core

pomegranateteeth

sure fucking whatever man

dragon-in-a-fez

isn't that that Tolkien book

wholesome-animal-images

vetyr

Someone was talking quietly of lanterns—but loud enough to light my way.

prints here

hazellvsq

okay i'll shut up in a second but annabeth remembering sensory details about reyna - her gestures, her ring. reyna always wearing armor and annabeth not wearing it when she needs it. reyna making annabeth blush. crazy.

damdemigodishness

i do this too but its just a really, really long friendship