From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-08-18T15:09:03+09:00
Subject: Re: start_with? Does someone need a grammar lesson?

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Rick DeNatale<rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/17 Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com>:
>>> Yep,  I too found it a bit jarring when I first started using Ruby,
>>> but it has become one of those things you just accept, just like
>>> accepting that if you're speaking French must adjectives come after
>>> nouns.
>>
>> I bet you prefer that I call you "vieux ami" instead of "ami vieux" though!
>>
>
> Well, I committed a typo, that I realized right away, but was too
> lazy? to correct.
>
> I meant to say that in French most adjectives come after nouns.
>
> In English the sentence, "Must adjectives come after nouns." is
> ungrammatical unless the period is changed to a question mark.

Now I am confused. But no, they do not need to stand after nouns,
often short ones stand in front.
E.g.
C'est une belle femme.
vs.
C'est une femme sympathique.
(same for Italian)
And in the example I gave the semantic changes.
Vieux ami --> Good old friend
Ami vieux --> Aged friend
(same for Italian, no wonder the French learn it so quickly)

But in general they do stand behind nouns. Are there not some examples
of adjectives after the noun in English too, poetry?

Cheers
Robert
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-- 
module Kernel
  alias_method :λ, :lambda
end