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Originally Posted by chaika
Incidentally, speaking of random sequencing, in your sentence
я читаю мою интересную новую русскую книгу.
your sequence of adjectives is incorrect. (also -- should be свою). Compare it with:
I am reading my interesting new Russian book vs.
I am reading my new interesting Russian book.
No difference in English, though the first is more natural. Using "new interesting" requires a glottal stop to separate the words (unless you taper the 'w' to near silence); if the 'w' is slurred into 'interesting' the pattern of stresses will be such that 'new' sounds as if it is part of the next word. And since Americans are intolerant of even the slightest hint of non-nativity and accents, this may raise eyebrows.
There might be an area where NEW precedes INTERESTING natively, but I haven't been there.
It would be interesting to test this hypothesis.