My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say ‘a green great dragon’, but had to say ‘a great green dragon’. I wondered why, and still do.
https://www.tolkienestate.com/letters/letter-to-the-poet-w-h-auden-7-jun-1955/
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threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 187d
Tom Scott to the rescue: Adjectival Order: Why A "Big Red Balloon", not a "Red Big Balloon"?
TL;DW: There is an order, we mostly agree on what that order is, but we still have no idea why. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
sundray@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 187d
That feeling when you dig through the ditches and burn through the witches and slam in the back of your dragula