huffy Facebooker

People online sometimes need to take a chill pill and not assume everyone they deal with is like an angry Fark commenter or 4chan poster. A friend of mine on Facebook said “Luna Nueva” in a wall post, and some other friend of hers responded about how the adjective comes afterward in Spanish. I responded with “Actually, for some common adjectives, including ‘nueva’, the adjective can be placed before the noun. See http://www.dur.ac.uk/m.p.thompson/adjectives.htm”. My intention was only to say, in a friendly way, that there are exceptions to the general rule of adjective placement. Well, the guy got all butthurt over someone poking a hole in his blanket statement and responded with the following:

Sarah- I studied Spanish for 4 years but thanks for the ‘link’ I’m sure that will inform me more than any multitude of text books ever could. Actually it comes as a result of common placing which dictates its use, in the sense Jennzah was using it the adjective still comes after so ‘actually’ don’t patronise me, it’s still a general rule with exceptions.

I had to respond because, damn, way to get your dander up for no reason. I wrote back “Wow Harry, way to take my simple suggestion and blow up over it. No offense was intended, and I wasn’t trying to patronize you. Sometimes information can be offered simply with the intention of informing others about alternatives, not starting a flamewar.” Sheesh.