[ SECRET POST #6575 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6575 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

English is my first language but I have also stumbled upon communities that make my brain feel broken and like I no longer am able to read or understand English. It's the most bizarre feeling. Those words are words I know and they are in an order that could make sense but doesn't at all.

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[(Anonymous)]

It's why I have a new stock phrase in my lexicon: All of the words in that [comment/sentence/paragraph] are English and yet I have no idea what this says.

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve also felt this way.

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes someone will leave out a word, choose a word that maybe doesn't mean what they think it means, or just order the words oddly and then a sentence becomes word salad.

I can't remember where I found this, but it was illuminating:
"Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-color-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. And as size comes before color, green great dragons can’t exist."

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da

That may be overstating the case a little, but it's pretty neat. And the internet informs me that the quote is from Mark Forsyth's Elements of Eloquence.