What’s Wrong with a Big, Beautiful Grammar Column?
•November 29, 2023•
Boy, what I wouldn’t give for a big, beautiful, delicious, juicy cheeseburger right about now.
Or would it be a beautiful, juicy, delicious, big cheeseburger?
That second variation doesn’t have quite the same mouth feel, does it?
That’s because while few of us aware of it, there is an order to the multiplicity of adjectives we apply to things.
I never learned about this in school, but I’ve seen enough internet tropes about it to know there is something to it.