Thread: check this out please

Originally Posted by kwatts59

Originally Posted by TATY

"Beautiful elegant young lady". 3 adjectives is a bit of an overload.

I asked a couple of people what they thought of this phrase and they said it sounds fine. In fact, they said more adjectives can be added as long as there is no redundancy or contradition.

I do not think any woman would frown on the compliment "You are a beautiful elegant young lady".

There is a difference between giving a woman a compliment, and what you write in prose.

Three adjectives, like that, is very schoolboy-ish. Ever heard of "less is more"? A good writer can describes things economically. And would put commas between adjectives as well.

In a big, dark, grey, empty, spooky house on a long, foggy, narrow, tree-lined street, there sat an old, crazy, grey-haired, black woman.

Giv me a buk deel mommy, i can rite good!