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minus-squareHonoraryMancunian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoAblaut reduplication trumps adjective order
minus-squareknightly the Sneptaur@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months ago“Big” being a size adjective and “bad” being its purpose in the fairy tale. As opposed to “bad big wolf”, which implies that there is more than one big wolf to be referred to and specifies that referral to the one I dislike. =D
Big bad wolf.
Ablaut reduplication trumps adjective order
I know some of those words
Overriden by ablaut reduplication.
“Big” being a size adjective and “bad” being its purpose in the fairy tale.
As opposed to “bad big wolf”, which implies that there is more than one big wolf to be referred to and specifies that referral to the one I dislike. =D