You use the word intuit as a verb where I would go old school and use "understands it intuitively". You slap a letter s on the end to make the word sound correct to your ear. I will eventually use the word intuits in the same way you do but it will jar for a while. However it is concise and conveys the same meaning as "understand intuitively".

As you say, language is insane.

Now, adjective ordering. I think there is an "official" order but native speakers are not formally taught it because it is largely innate for us. It is likely something taught as a very advanced language feature because you can mix up the order and it still works.

I think a few experiments are in order:

Dark satanic mills. Jolly green giant. Large blue marble. Long winding road. Darling buds of May. Big fat Greek wedding. OK it looks like:

  * Emotive (jolly, happy, sad)
  * Quantitative (big, small, fat, tall, short)
  * Colour
  * Shape (winding)
  * Other adjectives - needs some work
  * Noun 

This is going to need more work but there is a bit of a pattern. What I've picked up as emotive probably includes other classes of adjectives