On Thursday, September 4, 2014 3:03:09 PM UTC-4, gejyspa wrote:
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,
I don't think so. First "bright yellow star" could mean "bright yellow" but more likely it means "bright star that is yellow". I think there is something important to notice about most of your examples. The first two words are very close to something we might hyphenate. ("very fast" is the clear exception, but very is an adverb.) And that goes to my point. It makes more sense if there where a word for this hyphenation. And we kind of already have that actually in `bo`. In these cases it would make more sense to have to use `bo` than it does for my cases.
Also this isn't just my bias. Although it is hard for me to speak for any language beyond English, but there are known patterns from which I am drawing my opinion. See http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/25/paper1473.pdf for example.