The Bad Big Wolf Meets Riding Hood Little Red
summary
Claim: natural adjective order predicts readability and const int vs int const placement in C++. Uses the explicit acronym GSSSACPM (general opinion specific opinion size shape age color origin material), English idioms like big brown wooden spoon and phenomena such as ablaut reduplication to show which permutations sound wrong. Presents concrete examples—Little Red Riding Hood, big bad wolf, unsigned int—and argues that const before the type reads as the correct, consistent form while the reverse feels like gibberish.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:27Little Red Riding Hood
- 1:48Bad Big Wolf
- 2:04Humans
- 2:28Idioms
- 3:13Bad
- 3:37Hit
- 3:53Interlude
- 4:36English is thelingua franca
