daggermoon@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoToday I learned hyphenated words are largly obsoletewww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square73linkfedilinkarrow-up193arrow-down19
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minus-squarejimmy90@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·7 months agois old fashioned non-hyphenated? like red tree
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months ago ruby shoes that are red You mostly nailed it but this one would be “red ruby shoes” determiner, quantity, opinion, size, physical quality, shape, age, colour, origin, material, type, and purpose
minus-squareFlagstaff@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoWait. Where is this order from? I thought it was alphabetical or something.
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 months agoIt’s just some mostly-unwritten rule of English grammar. If you do it wrong it sounds wrong but most English speakers don’t think about it. Edit: reference.
is old fashioned non-hyphenated?
like red tree
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You mostly nailed it but this one would be “red ruby shoes”
determiner, quantity, opinion, size, physical quality, shape, age, colour, origin, material, type, and purpose
Wait. Where is this order from? I thought it was alphabetical or something.
It’s just some mostly-unwritten rule of English grammar. If you do it wrong it sounds wrong but most English speakers don’t think about it.
Edit: reference.