Why does the order of adjectives matter?

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Even though saying “the big brown brick wall” means the same as saying “the brick brown big wall”, the second feels so very wrong.

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I was a TEFL/Academic English teacher for 5 years. Grammar is a set of generalisations rather than ‘rules’, some with looser and with more irregular forms than others.
Adjective order is more collocation (sounds natural to native speakers) than consistent generalizations that might be found elsewhere.

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