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DanArmak comments on Putanumonit - Discarding empathy to save the world - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: Jacobian 06 October 2016 07:03AM

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Comment author: DanArmak 06 October 2016 09:49:19PM 0 points [-]

This is a tangent, but:

You know that “four delicious tiny round brown glazed Italian chocolate cookies” is the only proper way to order these adjectives.

There are definitely some ordering rules, but I am not convinced they are nearly as universal or as complex as this suggests. See the Language Log on this subject.