For me, one major weakness of English is having adjectives appearing before nouns. The more time passes, the more I hate that aspect of English. It messes up all sorts of things. Most other languages don't have this problem.

Consider that in programming, technical docs, even normal writing, it is almost always better to the most important aspect of a name come first. The adjective-noun order in English makes this awkward all the time.

> Most other languages don't have this problem

A lot of languages have this property: Germanic languages (incl. English), Slavic languages, Indian languages, most Chinese languages.

Source: https://wals.info/feature/87A#7/18.104/263.320

There are strictly _more_ languages with the opposite order (nouns before adjectives), at least in this dataset, but that seems to be an artifact of the huge number of distinct languages with relatively few speakers documented in Southeast Asia, Papua New Guinea and Africa.

I suspect that weighted by number of speakers, adjective-noun is the most common order globally.

I love its contribution to wordplay. You can write things like “yesterday we sat down to a meal of golden, moist, roast whisky” because the adjectives lead up to a set of expectations about the subject that turn out to be untrue.

You can go for 'Achilles the swift' order if you want though.