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I make them up myself TDOL! Who else could come up with stuff like this?
To be honest, I know that they are a little bit awkward, but that is in a way the whole point. I try to get at a "general rule" by "fabricating" sentences which are a bit "off".
You can find these kinds of sentences in print though, probably more often than you'd imagine. When you read fast, you just get the meaning and go, but when you want to translate the thing, you slow down and you wonder what the guy really meant! And your head starts spinning around, and you panic and you get what's known as a translator's obsession. Sometimes (not always) my sentences are simplified forms of sentences I have read. In other cases, I am just bracing for the awkward sentences that might one day hit me!
Thanks again, and I hope you don't mind my sentences too much. |