{"id":4458,"date":"2023-09-17T20:42:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T20:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/green_great_dragon_problem_97587522_9ea23dbd-7ff4-4228-9f5c-94824ed857fc.jpg.webp"},"modified":"2023-09-17T20:47:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T20:47:53","slug":"green_great_dragon_problem_97587522_9ea23dbd-7ff4-4228-9f5c-94824ed857fc-jpg","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2023\/09\/17\/why-we-cant-have-nice-things-intro\/green_great_dragon_problem_97587522_9ea23dbd-7ff4-4228-9f5c-94824ed857fc-jpg\/","title":{"rendered":"green_great_dragon_problem_97587522_9ea23dbd-7ff4-4228-9f5c-94824ed857fc.jpg"},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/green_great_dragon_problem_97587522_9ea23dbd-7ff4-4228-9f5c-94824ed857fc.jpg.webp'><img width=\"300\" height=\"251\" src=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/green_great_dragon_problem_97587522_9ea23dbd-7ff4-4228-9f5c-94824ed857fc.jpg-300x251.webp\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A tweet by Matthew Anderson from the BBC quoting Mark Forsyth&#039;s &#039;The Elements of Eloquence&#039;: &quot;Things native English speakers know, but don&#039;t know how we know: &quot;adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. 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And as size comes before colour, green great dragons can&#039;t exist.&quot;\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/green_great_dragon_problem_97587522_9ea23dbd-7ff4-4228-9f5c-94824ed857fc.jpg-300x251.webp 300w, http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/green_great_dragon_problem_97587522_9ea23dbd-7ff4-4228-9f5c-94824ed857fc.jpg-768x644.webp 768w, http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/green_great_dragon_problem_97587522_9ea23dbd-7ff4-4228-9f5c-94824ed857fc.jpg.webp 976w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A tweet by Matthew Anderson from the BBC quoting Mark Forsyth&#8217;s &#8216;The Elements of Eloquence&#8217;: &#8220;Things native English speakers know, but don&#8217;t know how we know:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun.  So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife.  But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you&#8217;ll sound like a maniac.  It&#8217;s an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out. And as size comes before colour, green great dragons can&#8217;t exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>A tweet by Matthew Anderson from the BBC quoting Mark Forsyth&#8217;s &#8216;The Elements of Eloquence&#8217;: &#8220;Things native English speakers know, but don&#8217;t know how we know:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun.  So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife.  But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you&#8217;ll sound like a maniac.  It&#8217;s an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out. And as size comes before colour, green great dragons can&#8217;t exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"A tweet by Matthew Anderson from the BBC quoting Mark Forsyth's 'The Elements of Eloquence': \"Things native English speakers know, but don't know how we know: \"adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac. It's an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out. 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