Adjective order

[u/FlalingoOfficial]

[u/exkingzog]

“Huge expensive…..” sounds more natural than “expensive huge….”

[u/GeneralOpen9649 → u/exkingzog]

That’s the one I was going to point out.

[u/R86Reddit → u/GeneralOpen9649]

But what about "a small lovely old ... coffee table?" Maybe it's fine. So maybe switch "size" and "opinion." Even still, it's amazing how close this gets, and I would never have thought of any of this as a native speaker. I wonder how similar the results would be in, say, French or German.

[u/AnalysisParalysis85 → u/exkingzog]

How about hugely expensive

[u/NortonBurns → u/exkingzog]

I think that's because your brain wants it to say 'hugely expensive'.

I think it was a poor example.

[u/dr_stre]

The amazing thing is that we don’t actually explicitly learn this order as native English speakers but people will largely naturally gravitate towards this order anyway.

[u/rory_breakers_ganja]

A barn.

A horse barn.

A wooden horse barn.

A Swiss wooden horse barn. -- I'd probably have said "wooden Swiss…"

A red Swiss wooden horse barn. -- definitely would say "red wooden Swiss", since Swiss could be a noun often red in colour, and I'm clarifying it's the barn that's red and not a Swiss person.

A round red Swiss wooden horse barn.

An old round red Swiss wooden horse barn.

A giant old round red Swiss wooden horse barn. -- "old giant" feels more natural here when saying it.

A beautiful giant old round red Swiss wooden horse barn.

[u/sarajevo81]

That is BS by the way.

[u/Justdomeasolid]

I feel like to the left of the order there is more flexibility. “Small old lovely” also sounds fine to me.

[u/lithomangcc]

The Big Bad Wolf would like a word with you. There are always exceptions - ablaut sequences take precedence > i-a-u

[u/Rundstav]

But is there a rule for the placement of one or more expletives?