I recently heard about this famous paragraph from Mark Forsyth’s book, The Elements of Eloquence.
“Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac. It’s an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out.”
Yes, the adjective order itself is impressive. But even more impressive is how native English speakers know this rule intuitively but not consciously.
It made me think about how much we learn and replicate subconsciously.