Did grammar change (order of adjectives)?

[Pugilistic]

I'm wondering because these days on the internet like on sherdog, video games, memes, etc., I see a lot of multiple adjectives that seem off. For example, if you talk about students who are young and American, I was always told to say, "Young, American students." That's how I was taught in school in the US, but nowadays I would see more of "American, young students."

I just thought people on the internet were fucking up grammar but it's so prevalent that I'm wondering if the rules of grammar have changed. I recently saw a cut scene from Wolfenstein and even there a character says, "German, innocent lives" as opposed to "innocent, German lives." The latter would be correct to me.

Can anyone explain? Also I remember when I was younger, people didn't say "drunken" but people seem to use it a lot these days.

 

[BisexualMMA]

 

[bandicoot]

Idk, but the way you said you've seen it said recently sounds stupid.

 

[steve38]

Can anyone explain? Also I remember when I was younger, people didn't say "drunken" but people seem to use it a lot these days.

Your Spanish learning is to blame for noticing incorrectly positioned adjectives...I would suspect. It's all good as long as your participle isn't left dangling.

 

[Clear Winner]

I'm not sure about the cases mentioned in the OP, but the following are far too common now:

- People pluralising incorrectly. e.g "Country's" instead of countries. Generally adding an unnecessary apostrophe in other cases too.

- "Of" instead of have

- All of the your/you're their/there/they're confusion

- "Definately" instead of definitely, which then gets autocorrected to defiantly.

We need to bring back grammar Nazis!

Inb4 some kind fellow corrects my grammar.