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prmph 8 hours ago

For me, one major weakness of English is having adjectives appearing before nouns. The more time passes, the more I hate that aspect of English. It messes up all sorts of things. Most other languages don't have this problem.

Consider that in programming, technical docs, even normal writing, it is almost always better to the most important aspect of a name come first. The adjective-noun order in English makes this awkward all the time.

kstrauser 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I love its contribution to wordplay. You can write things like “yesterday we sat down to a meal of golden, moist, roast whisky” because the adjectives lead up to a set of expectations about the subject that turn out to be untrue.

rightbyte 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can go for 'Achilles the swift' order if you want though.