grammar

however
i. if the coffee is hot the cup will be hot (and vice versa)
ii. there is anyway a handy get-out here called "transferred epiphet": it is a poetic device -- required in poetry bcz rhythm or rhyme sometimes ensure that stnard prose word order can't be sacrosanct -- which very naturally and easily naturally migrates to prose

(ie the transferral part of "transferred epiphet" correctly maps the situation: the niceness of the tea is objective correlative for and indeed metonymic of the social event)

The "cup of hot coffee" form is much more detailed and allows you to make all kinds of interesting distinctions about where the modifier is pointed, but with modifiers like "hot," those are distinctions we just don't need to make. (And if we did need to make them, they'd be unusual enough that we'd spell them out, rather than relying on minor syntax stuff to carry them: if the cup was frozen and the coffee was hot, you'd say "hold up, dude, let me explain something really weird about this coffee.")

With other modifiers you wouldn't do that -- e.g. you'd say "cup of Colombian coffee," because it's actually important to specify which part of the cupofcoffee unit is Colombian.

no, i don't think it should be "cup fo hot cofree" at all.

i'm intent on proving myself right here. to me, this is the most obvious thing in the world. but my officemates are challenging me, the scoundrels.

which one is correct:

"The production originated at the Chichester Festival, then transferred to a sold-out run in London's West End."

or

"The production originated at the Chichester Festival then transferred to a sold out run in London's West End."

there has to be a comma after Festival.

Q. What is a comma's favourite song by The Smiths?
A. Girlfriend in a Comma! (coma)

come on there has to be some kind of commaphile on here who can solve my little grammar puzzle

You are correct. Don't ask me exactly why but I bet my life on it. Who is suggesting no comma? That person is a moran.

w/comma is definitely correct

Surmounter you should have used the thread for commas!

comma roundtable

Technically, neither is correct: if I were editing that, I'd put an "and" in place of your comma. But that kind of "comma-then" construction (that you're proposing) is very common and most people probably wouldn't bat an eye at it. The version without the comma is just plain wrong.

THANK YOU

blow up english grammar and start all over again, ugh

english grammar should be trotted out as witness #1 in the argument against intelligent design

ha tbh it's the only reason i'd ever thank them for invading us, caint as gaeilge is a bitch imo

I suppose I should thank them for invading us too, and unifying the tribes

Icarian? Icarusian? Neither?

Icarus-like?

thermally-challenged

Haha, I went with Icarian in the end.

however
i. if the coffee is hot the cup will be hot (and vice versa)

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I would be shocked if this has not popped up on a thread or two, but if so I have no idea where, or whether this is the best place for it, but wow:

“Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac. It’s an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out.”

He follows up with another example, "As size comes before colour, green great dragons can't exist."

Discussed at more length, with other "rules we know but don't know we know," here:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160908-the-language-rules-we-know-but-dont-know-we-know