• pet the cat, walk the dog@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That immediately sounds like ‘green knife’ and ‘French knife’ are some special kinds of knives, not just what they look like and where they’re from.

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      3 months ago

      The category order is generally more rigid toward the right half of the adjective list. So you could have an old thin bread knife or a thin old bread knife, but not an old bread thin knife.