[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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In this example you gave: the first one tells me the speaker thinks the car is cute because it’s little and red and those describe the cars physical attributes to distinguish it amongst other “cars”. In the second sentence I gather only that the speaker thinks the car is cute..and uses little and red to again distinguish which car they are referring to.