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johndburger t1_j6ln2jn wrote
Reply to comment by Any-Broccoli-3911 in ELI5: Why does the order of adjectives matter? by AbleReporter565
In fact most languages do, and the order is similar across languages.
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-030521-041835
This suggests that it’s not simply a matter of grammar, but is connected to something deeper in our mental models of the world.
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