The more I think about adjective order in terms of different "layers" of topics learned at different times during childhood development and language acquisition, the more it makes sense. For example with the "Lying Old Man" versus "Old Lying Man" there can be no doubt that these have different meanings. And that one of them ("Lying Old Man") is more natural.
I propose this is simply because we learned the concept of "Old" before we learned the concept of "Liar". We learned the word "Liar" in a world that already had the "Old" concept. The linguistic principle we draw from this is that we speak in the same order as we learned. Or Adjective Order recapitulates Learning Order.

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