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New #introduction, since I moved servers.

I'm David, I work in events, typically around strange videogames. I run a small game design festival named Feral Vector, and curate some things for other events. I also do a bit of production management for Geeks For Social Change.

Outside of that, I'm studying maths, and tend to ride bikes a lot.

I've been on fedi since 2016, but only got around to moving off .social this year.

So in this case, "circular" is a more specific term than "round", and if I'm right that would be what causes most people to switch shape and colour ordering.

This paper goes much deeper:
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-030521-041835

Excellent answer from Daniel Ross here: https://www.quora.com/What-order-of-adjectives-do-languages-other-than-English-have-Are-there-general-trends-in-those?share=1

I suspect it might be because ordering adjectives by specificity makes for efficient thinking and communication, which is somewhat subjective. Hence adjective order would be an emergent, flexible convention observable across languages and cultures, rather than inviolable rule. Which is the case.

Languages that put noun before adjectives tend to show this same ordering, but inverted. Seems like the noun is the most specific thing and grounds the other characteristics?

The most common order in each case is exactly what I expected, but I did expect deeper biases toward the most common word orders.

Admittedly this is small number of people, and this poll is hardly science, but changing "round" to "circular" seems to switch the natural sounding word order of shape and colour for most people

Ahh, May, when everyone leaves the sunroof slightly open and forgets the wind will set off their car alarm

Follow up poll, which of these is most correct to you?

Which is most correct to you?

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