I wrote that and thought the same thing. Then I remembered that I found this (english.stackexchange.com), and that I needed to check my adjective ordering (the ordering seemed fine, but I wanted to read it more closely regardless). Then somebody walked into my cube, and the thought was lost.

In the programming world, adjective ambiguity is syntactically impossible (or at least yields incorrect results). If we had some of the same punctuation operators as programming, and natural language followed the "fluent" programming style (where all operators return their original calling objects, unless the function/property refers to another child object) we could have something like:

Lady.Pretty().Corolla.Red()

...but that sort of violates word order. And probably causes lots of problems elsewhere. For the time being, my love for Corollas can remain ambiguous.

#5071, posted at 2013-04-20 14:06:16 in Look down, look down...