Bad adjective placement

[sniffnoy]

Sitting on the table in the dining room right now is a Go set. It has a caption, "A game of oriental strategy." I can't help but think that particular phrasing has some bad implications. You sure you didn't mean to place that adjective a bit earlier, guys?

-Harry

Comments

[joshuazelinsky.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily. The claim could be that the strategy type in the game is somehow oriental rather than Western.

[jonpin.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It's a well-known fact that if, while in battle with a Chinese army, you are completely surrounded with nowhere to go, you instantly disappear from the battlefield.