John Rentoul on questions of style and usage in last week’s Independent
n our review of ITV’s new autumn series, we said that Daniel York Loh, the writer and actor, had accused the show of “recycling racist old tropes about exotic temptresses”. Thanks to Gavin Turner for pointing out that the word order seems odd, and for asking why it should not be “old racist tropes”. , says that adjectives in English have to be in the order “opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose”.
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