>>13663329considering I've mostly encountered at the most 3 descriptors for a given word, I'd think that the adj --> noun format would be slightly better.
But I suppose there's no harm in letting both structures exist. I guess that might not work for lists of nouns but
As long as it's simple and has nothing to do with "exceptions" (because really, fuck those) in language, I'd feel fine with both of them simultaneously being correct. Thought it would not be my preference.
And those fractions of seconds add up. Think about every sentence you say in a day. Maybe a conservative estamate is 800. 500 of those have a descriptor or two in 'em. Even if the effective difference is the conservative estimate about a tenth of a second for each adjective, that's still about 50 seconds. Might not seem like a lot, but then again stopping at a traffic light might not seem like a big waste of time either. And in both these cases - street lights and thought processing - one thing is for sure: even the menial moments add up.
Let's take that conservative daily total. Humans live about 80 years, and we'll likely live longer than that due to new technologies (if you're already old I apologize). Each year has 365 1/4 days in it. Suddenly that 50 seconds doesn't seem so small anymore. Based on that conservative estimation, you'd waste about 405 hours of your life in total, simply thinking about adjectives.
You could spend that time - about 16 days - doing something else more pressing.
We tend to underestimate the small things and their cumulative effect and I'm not saying that any new "megalanguage" should use adj --> verb just to give people back 2 weeks+ of their lives. I'm simply saying "why not?"
Again I'm just trying to say that through the logic I've learned, I think adj --> noun is the best structure to use, on average. I'd love to hear a good counter.
