i think the weirdest thing we've learned about language is that adjectives go in a fixed order when more than one is used for the same noun, but 1) no one ever gets *taught* that and 2) everyone seems to get the order right regardless

@Felthry We were taught that in English class, I think in high school! We were given the basic guideline of "opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin" and even though it doesn't account for every adjective it works well enough most of the time

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@socks Hmm, perhaps it's taught to ESL students? It certainly wasn't taught to us and every native english speaker we know has been surprised to learn it

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