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1. Listen to accents from around the world

   

   I discovered localingual with joy, just to find out is still in its infancy… but if you like languages, the promise of a great website is there!

   Right now, it suffers three major problems. Its hard to navigate, low sample size and the voting system instead of encouraging quality, encourages the oldest/jokes to be on top (unless they are very bad or too offensive, i guess). Texas have a spongebob joke right now

   Pros? If you enjoy languages, its great to hear real accents around the world

2. Pinky Great tit but no pinky big tit

   Refering to how Green great dragons cant exist , a friend (thanks Vadim!) pointed out another great example of how an adjetive can be inseparable from his name sometimes when its part the name. The Great tit

   

3. Green great dragons cant exist

   Natives (and some non-natives after a while!) can tell if something sounds off, even if they cant explain why. One of those things is adjetive order. They follow some rules that even people using english for all their lives are able to explain because it just sounds natural to them

   This order is

   quantity/number - quality/opinion - size - age - shape - color - place of origin - material - purpose NOUN
   

   This is why there cant be any green great dragon, but only great green dragons

   There seems to be some exceptions to this, like big bad wolf, but in my opinion, bad is not an opinion of what you think of the wolf, but part of the name, as in big bad-wolf :)