Dumb Questions Amnesty

Doesn't belong here but where is Bloodstained Devil haven't heard from him for a while.

He’s fine - living the good life.
Actually, he’s been around last few days :slight_smile:

Yep, I’m #BACKIN HG, (for draft night/week at least)

Took a bit of a blitz break & *ran to the hills!!

(*Had a substantial job on for a mate that lives off grid in the high plains)

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Why is it a ‘shiny big red ball’ instead of a ‘red big shiny ball’?

Also why does English tend to have sentences backwards to compared to pretty much every other language in the world?

Also why does English tend to have sentences backwards to compared to pretty much every other language in the world?

Because everyone else is wrong!

Also why does English tend to have sentences backwards to compared to pretty much every other language in the world?

In particular - nouns/adjectives.

English - the brown dog
Almost every other European language - the dog brown

Also why does English tend to have sentences backwards to compared to pretty much every other language in the world?

In particular - nouns/adjectives.

English - the brown dog
Almost every other European language - the dog brown

Not greek!

Also why does English tend to have sentences backwards to compared to pretty much every other language in the world?

In particular - nouns/adjectives.

English - the brown dog
Almost every other European language - the dog brown

Not greek!

I don’t know Greek - does it fall the other way, does it?

Also why does English tend to have sentences backwards to compared to pretty much every other language in the world?

In particular - nouns/adjectives.

English - the brown dog
Almost every other European language - the dog brown

Not greek!

I don’t know Greek - does it fall the other way, does it?

Same as english - adjectives before nouns.

Also why does English tend to have sentences backwards to compared to pretty much every other language in the world?
In particular - nouns/adjectives.

English - the brown dog
Almost every other European language - the dog brown


Not greek!

The Greeks brought us Trump. Stuff 'em.
Why is it a 'shiny big red ball' instead of a 'red big shiny ball'?

Because there are rules on the order: observation, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose

Therefore, you have an shiny big old red swedish rubber bouncing ball if you wanted the full extreme

At what point does afternoon become evening, and evening become night?

Also why does English tend to have sentences backwards to compared to pretty much every other language in the world?
In particular - nouns/adjectives.

English - the brown dog
Almost every other European language - the dog brown


Not greek!

The Greeks brought us rump. Stuff it.

EFA

Also why does English tend to have sentences backwards to compared to pretty much every other language in the world?

In particular - nouns/adjectives.

English - the brown dog
Almost every other European language - the dog brown

Stepped on one of those yesterday

Also why does English tend to have sentences backwards to compared to pretty much every other language in the world?

In particular - nouns/adjectives.

English - the brown dog
Almost every other European language - the dog brown

Because English is a bastardisation of Norman French and German Anglo-Celt languages after 1066. So differing grammatical rules were mashed together haphazardly.

And it also had Latin grammatical rules retro-fitted in the 17th-18th century. (That is where rules about split infinitives come from, for example). There are very few words in English that survive from the Celts, though.

Why doesn't 'am' have an opposite contraction?

Is. Isn’t.
Does. Doesn’t.
Are. Aren’t.
Am. I’m not.

That’s weak as ■■■■.
Should be amn’t.

Why is Last Christmas by Wham! considered a Christmas song? Seems stupid to me.

Why is Last Christmas by Wham! considered a Christmas song? Seems stupid to me.

Because it has the word ‘Christmas’ in it, silly.