When we describe something in English, the ordering of our adjectives is very important. It goes something like this: Opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose and – finally – noun. Thus “comely contemporary Cuban counterfeit cologne” sounds more appealing, say, than “pirated Peruvian present-day pretty perfume”. Alliteration, of course, adds the spice.
April, 2019: Rhetorical Trickery
