It kinda means (to me, a layman) that the accidentals are little but the angry is big
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gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Huh. This reminds me of that thing with English adjective order.
It’s Happy Little Accidents, but Big Angry Intent. Are Happy and Angry not in the same category of adjective?
frank@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I thought the same thing. It seems like the commonly accepted order (Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Color, Origin, Material, and Purpose) doesn’t include emotion, so that might be what makes it ambiguous.
Or it might be the meaning behind the words - when Bob Ross says “happy little accidents”, he’s not saying the accidents are happy but that they’re a good thing, so this is more like an opinion, while “big angry intents” sounds more like the intents are themselves angry.
gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Hmmm… I think there’s something there in what you said… It does seem more like “he’s happy about the little accidents”, while “the angry intents are big”. Weird!