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Don't think of them as exceptions. Think of them as corner cases 
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: more a collection of use cases and A LOT OF exceptions 
FTFY
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Even if so, why does it seem (to me at least) that they should swap positions in this case? </rhetorical>
I don't see "fluffy" as opinion or material. Where does texture go in the order?
Richard Deeming wrote: "Fluffy large red" feels wrong to me. But "fluffy red" feels more righterish than "red fluffy"
So I guess I'm not alone anyway.
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P.S. Not really as a response to you, but as further thought your response have provoked.
Regarding "green great dragon": If the writer has established "great dragon" as a thing, then I can see "green great dragon" being acceptable.
The castle is guarded by three great dragons. The main drawbridge is guarded by a green great dragon. Upon the keep sits a red great dragon, watching all directions. And deep in the dungeon lurks a blue great dragon.
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Doesn’t that make “great dragon” more of a title than an attribute, like in “grand master”? Just a thought.
Mircea
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Yeah, kinda maybe. But more like [hot dog] and [ugly sweater] act as nouns rather than as a noun with an adjective.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: The castle is guarded by three great dragons. The main drawbridge is guarded by a green great dragon. Upon the keep sits a red great dragon, watching all directions. And deep in the dungeon lurks a blue great dragon.
It just sounds wrong when you say it, even though I was previously unaware of this rule.
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I know. But I can English with the best of 'em.
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Interesting. While reading I started thinking of a counter example and couldn't.
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Tactile versus visual? Objective versus subjective?
Large, fluffy, red ... The label also says Large (L); but makes no reference to fluffy or red; though fluffy might be implied in the material and washing instructions. "Non-white" is implied if told to wash separately with like colors.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
modified 3 days ago.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: As I was lay awake this morning
In terms of two people speaking to each other...
The real value is in the word 'trapped'. The rest provides only limited value in the context to the other person. After all for example if it was small versus large would that really change anything?
But if I was the other person I would be more curious as to why you were laying in bed wearing a sweater like that in the first place. And if you were not in fact wearing it then why were you thinking about it in the first place.
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I'm guessing you've never lain awake in the morning. Hmm?
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It was a joke of course.
But yes I have lain awake many mornings.
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Whatever order sounds most like a band name is correct.
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Oddly enough, I had Soft, White Underbelly on my mind yesterday. 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I'm trapped inside a large, red, fluffy sweater ...
On a cold, dark, winter evening, with my soft, furry, ginger cat 😺 on my lap.
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I think it depends on what the word "fluffy" is describing.
If it's related to material, then it's a large red fluffy sweater. It's made of something fluffy, but it could be wool, cotton, nylon, etc. It could also simply be referring the class of objects known as "fluffy sweaters".I've got a large red fluffy sweater and a small green fluffy sweater. In this case, dropping the "large", I could still say "a red fluffy sweater"!
If it's the shape, then it's a large fluffy red sweater.I've got a large fluffy red sweater and a small furry green sweater. If it's opinion, then it's a fluffy large red sweater. This use would indicate the speaker is emphasizing the fluffiness."Is this a nice large red sweater?"
"Well, it's definitely a fluffy large red sweater!" Of course, rules are made to be broken, so the size-color order can be overridden if you're specifically referring to "large sweaters".I've several large sweaters, but my green large sweater is being washed, so I'll wear my fluffy red large sweater.
modified 3 days ago.
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At least you are keeping the indefinite article.
Leaving out definite or indefinite article from sentences gets my goat 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It's definitely an article of clothing.
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I think that would be "indefinitely".
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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For an indefinite period, sure. Maybe only until the asteroid hits.
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I saw this quote in the comments on an article about "AI" failing an IQ test:
Considering what actual stupidity has brought us to, I'm not at all cheered by the idea that now we’re going to add in artificial stupidity with a lot of money behind it.
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That's how it gets you, playing dumb while keeping track of everything. At some point in the future WHAM! we're all slaves to the artificial overmind.
Maybe the Terminator movies got it right? Maybe there is no avoiding SkyNet?
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