Every native English speaker knows this adjective order but likely never realised it. quantity opinion size age shape colour origin purpose
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… they can't be reordered, e.g. "strong Bavarian beer", because "Bavarian beer" is a phrase.
Is it more about whether the "phrasal" bit has connotations beyond merely being the intersection of strong things and things which are beer?
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Think of it as a measure of importance. It is more important that the beer is Bavarian than that it is strong.
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I actually wonder if that is how the ordering of English adjectives came about, by some measure of importance.
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