[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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Follow up question, what about in Romance languages (eg, Spanish, Portuguese, etc) and other languages where the adjective comes after the noun it modifies?

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