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Some owls have skinny long legs
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You know seeing how you phrased the sentence, I know intuitively that it should be long, skinny legs instead of skinny long legs but I'm not sure why
There's actually a "proper" order of adjectives in English!
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/In-a-Word/2021/0921/Explaining-the-royal-order-of-adjective-placement
It's not something ever learn directly, but nonetheless we all seem to inherently know it. Why this order? Who knows! It's one of many weird quirks of our language (and some others). It's certainly a hard thing for non-native speakers to pick up on.
I honestly wouldn't blame anyone who just rage quits English upon getting to this lesson in ESL class.
english isn't special all languages have this
how do you think anglophones feel when they learn french and have to say "small balloon red"?