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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?

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  • 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.

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    • 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!

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  • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It kinda means (to me, a layman) that the accidentals are little but the angry is big

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• hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have you seen what he did to that poor little brush?
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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Beat the Dickens out of it!

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is a good philosophy for dealing with people and circumstances that oppress you

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• tatterdemalion@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nerd question: My English brain reads “happy little accident” and “big angry intent” as the correct ordering of adjectives for both phrases. But semantically, the adjectives are actually swapped in order (big and little are not in the same position). What is going on?

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  • QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Funny, I thought the same thing!

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• Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, he was a Drill Sergeant.

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We want happy paintings, if you want sad things… I’m about to go on a happy little spree

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• Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  "Don't make me angry. You don't want to see me when I'm angry." - Fred Rogers

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aww, a couple’s costume!
  !Couplememes@sh.itjust.works

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