[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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[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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Questions like this don’t really have an answer. That’s just how it came to be. Why are some languages SVO while others are SOV? That’s just how they came to be. Why does English put its adjectives before the noun instead of after like other languages? That’s just how it came to be. There’s not really a reason other than it just arbitrarily sounds right to the speakers of that language. Why does it sound fine to say “Pick up Max,” but not “Pick up him”? (One would say, “Pick him up.”) It’s just what sounds right.