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Re: [lojban] Why left-grouping of tanru?



  There are plenty of left groupings in English:

  newspaper editor strike
  electric light socket
  bass guitar player
  first base umpire
  television series director
  very fast typist

  etc etc
  The fact that you happened to picked examples that right grouping (and btw, bright yellow star is LEFT grouping, not right.  The color is bright yellow)
is jsut from your own biases....  :-)
            --gejyspa, 


On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:58 AM, TR NS <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
Was wondering why "left-grouping rule" was chosen as the default for tanru? 

I ran though random examples of using two adjectives in my head and they are almost always right-grouping. "big red truck", "bright yellow star", "little lost ant", there are exceptions, like "dark roast coffee", but even then the right-grouping would be okay. But in the other examples left-grouping would be just flat wrong. 

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