[ELI5] why do we use words in order like “the cute little red car” and not something like “the little red cute car”?
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We just do. English has a specific order of adjectives, and every native speaker intuits it without formal instruction just like we learn every other part of our native language without much instrction.
As for why it’s in *that* order… it’s arbitrary. There’s no reason. It’s just the order we collectively decided over the several thousands of years it took for our language to evolve into its current form.
Every other language has an adjective order, and they don’t align with English’s adjective order. They just decided differently.
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