• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    If I were designing a natural language, I’d put adjectives after the nouns, so you start with the important things first

    So - French?

    • lunarul@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      The thing is that in French, Spanish, etc. it still makes sense if you put the adjective before the noun, even if it might sound weird in some cases. An adjective is an adjective and a noun is a noun.

      But English is positional. Where you put a word gives it its function. So “red car” and “car red” mean different things.