Why does Bad Big Wolf sound so very, very wrong? What happened to the rules? Little Red Riding Hood may be perfectly ordered, but the Big Bad Wolf seems to be breaking all the laws of linguistics. Second, you can spend the next hour of your life trying to think of exceptions, which is useful as it keeps you from doing something foolish like working.Īctually, there are a couple of small exceptions. And there’s the shock of realising that there’s a reason there may be little green men on Mars, but there certainly aren’t green little men. We’re all quite a lot cleverer than we think we are. That’s rather peculiar, and rather exciting. First, it astonishes us that there are rules that we didn’t know that we knew. English speakers love to learn this sort of thing for two reasons.
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