“Will you come to my party?” ”Love to. Shall I bring a bottle?”
In which direction is the bottle moving?
Speaking of pronunciation @B3, I heard of a chap who went to the doctor because he could not pronounce his F’s or TH’s. “Well,” said the doc, “you can’t say fairer than that.”
Thank you for trying to help @pansyface but I am never going to get it. BYOB and take-aways,I get. Take from, I get. But shall I bring it or take it with me, I cannot get.
That rule of the placement of adjectives (opinion, size, age, shape etc) is interesting because we all instinctively know it but few of us know we know it. But, @Pansyface, that question posed with incredulity suggests that the sequencing is far from universal. Is that so? Are there particular languages where the rule is non existent or very different?
I’m so pleased to learn that we “reflect universal cognitive predispositions for mapping descriptive semantic properties onto linear syntactic positions.” Now I can sleep more easily.
I've been thinking about "You can't take it with you" when you die, @B3. I think that has to be "take" rather than "bring" because you'd be taking it away from this world (and from the speaker)... but I could be wrong...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Is bringing and taking related to coming and going?
You're coming to my house? Bring that book that I lent you. You're going to Mum's? Take those rooted cuttings that I grew for her. You're going to the after-life (whatever that might be)? You can't take it with you.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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”Love to. Shall I bring a bottle?”
In which direction is the bottle moving?
Speaking of pronunciation @B3, I heard of a chap who went to the doctor because he could not pronounce his F’s or TH’s. “Well,” said the doc, “you can’t say fairer than that.”
When you're dead , you can't take it with you.but can you bring it with you?
https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/1607/are-there-any-universal-aspects-to-adjective-sequence
I’m so pleased to learn that we “reflect universal cognitive predispositions for mapping descriptive semantic properties onto linear syntactic positions.” Now I can sleep more easily.