Random Dent

It’s such a genius idea because it’s not only a super original way to do FTL, but it also gives you a perfect way out for any plot holes lol

That was what happened to my friends eBay store here in Canada. Tariffs meant he couldn’t ship to the states anymore and the ongoing Canada Post strikes made it difficult to ship within Canada. Still possible but just not really worth it anymore.

Apparently it’s called the Royal Order of Adjectives, and it’s essentially: determiner, opinion, size, shape, age, colour, origin, material, qualifier.

You don’t have to use all of those in the description, but that’s broadly the order to use them in to make it sound ‘right’. So for example in the comment I made above, it fits because I used:

• determiner (The)
• size (big)
• age (old)
• colour (red)
• material (wooden)

in that order. I’m sure I was never taught that in any organized way (I just had to look up what it was called lol) but I still got it in the right order anyway just by typing it out in the way that felt right, which I think is interesting.

And this might just be a UK thing but if a person goes off it means they get really angry. And it can mean to leave for somewhere.

So a firework goes off which makes the fire alarm go off which makes the safety officer go off. Then he goes off to get a fireman. But he leaves the milk out, so it goes off.

One of my favourites is the word jam, which can mean:

• A fruit preserve
• Traffic that’s stopped
• To play music
• A door that won’t open
• A difficult situation
• To force something in somewhere it’s not supposed to be
• To interrupt a signal
• Something you don’t like or can’t do (“that’s not my jam”)

And probably others, all spelled and pronounced the same way but with wildly different meanings depending on the context.

The other English thing I find super interesting is how there’s a sort of unspoken but very clearly understood order to adjectives. So for example, if I say “The big old red wooden door” it works as a description, but if I say “The wooden old red big door” it sounds weird even though it’s the same information. People aren’t usually formally taught the order (as far as I know), but everyone seems to understand it.

Although the past tense of write is wrote, so maybe for read it should be rode… dammit!

I before E, except after C!

As long as you don’t count the word caffeine. Or protein. Or species. Or seize or heinous or leisure or weird or feign or their or reignite or any of the other 923 words that are exceptions to this rule lol.