What native English speakers instinctively know.

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4. I would argue that in

"great big beautiful blonde" both "great" and "big" are size adjectives.

Although, one could say, "fabulous big beautiful blonde" where the world "fabulous" clearly an opinion word, and that order does sound right.

There are undoubtedly some other small exceptions to those rules, but for the very most part they are instinctive and followed by native English speakers.

I appreciate your counter example. I love language and read up on language and linguistics whenever I can and I'm totally fascinated by the topic. English is my first language. I have a decent command of French, a workable command of Spanish, and can offer up a few words in German and Italian. I am in awe of true bi- or multi-linguals. I live in Santa Fe, and I never fail to be impressed that someone waiting on the public always knows exactly which language to offer to a customer, English or Spanish.