• hakase@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    That’s not “imitation crab”. That’s “crab imitation”.

    Nominal and adjectival modifiers almost always go before nouns in English, so “imitation crab” can only be “a thing that is an imitation of a crab”, while “crab imitation” would be a type of imitation.