Hi! Ardith,

On 01/26/2019 11:52 PM, you wrote:

 PQ>>  And that is why I've never feared purple people eaters.  :-P
 AH>          Or ferocious fire-breathing dragons, or enormous meat-eating
 AH> dinosaurs?

The order of adjectives supports an old joke: I'm safe because I'm not purple.

 AH>          Now that you mention it... the lyrics say "a one-eyed
 AH> one-horned flying purple people eater", IIRC.  I'm not quite sure how
 AH> these added words would fit the theory, unless one considers them as +/-
 AH> pertaining to shape, but the whole kit & kaboodle sounds right AFAIC.
 AH> You've reminded me of another song here too
 AH> .. i.e. the one about an "itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polka dot
 AH> bikini".  It seems to me that with all of the above we're not afaid of
 AH> them because, if they ever actually existed, they don't pose any real
 AH> danger to us... and because, if the series is very long &/or very silly,
 AH> it makes us laugh.

Holy mackerel!  There's some wild old memories you're digging up there. 
So, was it a white bikini?  ;)

 AH>          Thankyou!  I hope other native speakers will join the fun.  I
 AH> also hope somebody will have noticed that I used "a"...
not "an"... with
 AH> "one-eyed".  ;-)

We probably accepted it as being correct without making a specific check. 
OTOH, I note with interest that you a use a single word 'thank you'.  Is
that a Canadian thing?

Cheers,
Paul.

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