Thursday, 31 August 2017

The Bloody, Conquest, Horrible, Large, New, Singular, Widespread Thing



So Humanese, it took words from various former Human languages, but the main one it’s based on, structurally, is English. And with that came the adjective listing rule. Basically any noun with multiple adjectives lists them in the order of quantity, opinion, size, age, shape, color, any proper adjective , and then finally purpose or qualifier. Many brown dogs, for instance. Blue giant impressive dragons, that just sounds weird.

And yet, the first alien race we met, the Azarians, they ordered them alphabetically. Got on Humanity’s nerves.

Now, I’m not saying that CAUSED the war, but it sure didn’t help…

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