• Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    It’s not grammatically wrong though. It’s a soft ordering constraint. It’s not a hard syntax rule.

    If you’re being taught in a high-level linguistics class that it’s a hard rule, then that class is dog s***.

    I’ve listened to enough syntacticians ramble about this topic for a life time.