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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".
Re: check this out please
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Originally Posted by kwatts59
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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.
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Re: check this out please
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Originally Posted by kwatts59
I do not think any woman would frown on the compliment "You are a beautiful elegant young lady".
I'd really only count that as two adjectives, seeing how 'young lady' is a very common single phrase. You're not really calling the lady young...
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Originally Posted by BlackMage
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Originally Posted by kwatts59
I do not think any woman would frown on the compliment "You are a beautiful elegant young lady".
I'd really only count that as two adjectives, seeing how 'young lady' is a very common single phrase. You're not really calling the lady young...
Yes "young lady" is pretty much a noun in its own right.
And for the record, most of my female friends would object to a middle aged man saying "You are a beautiful elegant young lady".