Oh my god, a png of a twitter featuring a png. What is this world we have created.
Anyways.. it's pretty damn interesting. When I read it, I seriously read the last sentence as "great green dragon" without thinking, then went back and saw that I actually read the words in the wrong order.
Oddly enough, a green great dragon makes me think there would be some distinct species of dragon called the "great dragon", that are sometimes green, whereas "great green dragon" makes me think of just a very large, green, run-of-the-mill dragon.
However, all of this seems to me entirely related to training, getting very very used to things being expressed in a certain way. I have no idea how it could relate to some "innate" idea of grammar, especially since, as others have pointed out, this rule and many others only hold for English. Any bilingual individual can tell straight away that these things are all about memory -- nothing "innate" about a bunch of arbitrary rules.
Anyways.. it's pretty damn interesting. When I read it, I seriously read the last sentence as "great green dragon" without thinking, then went back and saw that I actually read the words in the wrong order.
Oddly enough, a green great dragon makes me think there would be some distinct species of dragon called the "great dragon", that are sometimes green, whereas "great green dragon" makes me think of just a very large, green, run-of-the-mill dragon.
However, all of this seems to me entirely related to training, getting very very used to things being expressed in a certain way. I have no idea how it could relate to some "innate" idea of grammar, especially since, as others have pointed out, this rule and many others only hold for English. Any bilingual individual can tell straight away that these things are all about memory -- nothing "innate" about a bunch of arbitrary rules.