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  • emizeko [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    for anyone who does english better than me, how do I fix the syntax in the title so it’s not weird? Is it possible to do so without adding a punctuation mark after “oh sweet”?

    instead of a comma you can use a qualifier to make sure the parsing happens the way you intend

    for example "oh sweet new manmade horrors beyond my comprehension"

    the new breaks the connection and makes sure that you're saying "oh sweet," not that the horrors are sweet

    the reason this works has to do with this deep hierarchy of adjectives that most English speakers can't even articulate

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      1 year ago

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      • emizeko [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I added it in an edit, but basically the "new" should come before sweet normally, so when you add it after sweet it kinda starts a separate parsing object

        opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose

        (I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to differentiate "sweet" from an opinion, I might be too wasted. maybe it has to do with the slang it comes from, maybe it's because it binds tighter to "material". dunno)

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