Wrestling with the implications of loosening a couple grammatical rules of my invented language. It would allow some bizarre ways of constructing things, which I think would be a net positive, since it's supposed to be a creepy alien language.
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The change makes adverbs and adjectives more interchangeable, which is awesome for descriptions of violence or ill omens. Imagine saying something in English like "He slaughtered them crimsonly" or "The soon-archon will arise from the deep"
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There is a figure of speech in classical rhetoric that does something similar. I don’t know whether the examples here might help or not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypallage
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