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john5-2 t1_j6lp9tp wrote

Think of it like adding parentheses in math.

Big (brown (brick wall))

Words to the left are things that fit into what's to their right.

A "brick wall" is a kind of wall. Brown is then a kind of brick wall. Big is a kind of brown brick wall.

That's the best I can do, but trust me, it makes sense.

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foolishle t1_j6ougcb wrote

That makes sense and is why if it is a brown big brick wall it sounds like (Brown (big brick) wall). The mis-ordered adjectives change the way the words must be nested in order to maintain the rule.

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