Submitted by AbleReporter565 t3_10pkxtj in explainlikeimfive
kynthrus t1_j6lr9e7 wrote
So those sentences actually don't mean the same thing technically. The image they portray to a native speaker is different.
To simplify it. A big brown brick wall is exactly as it sounds a large wall of bricks that is brown.
A brown brick big wall is a wall made of brown bricks and it's big.
A brick big brown wall is a brown wall that seems to be as big a single brick.
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