Let's share highly specific and unhelpful example sentences

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Re: Let's share highly specific and unhelpful example sentences

Postby lowsocks » Sat Jan 22, 2022 4:39 am

More examples from Duolingo. (The fellow says he actually likes their courses. He is just poking fun at some of their sentences.) Btw, the video was posted in 2015, long before this thread was started.

Duolingo is the Devil! The Undeniable Truth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbmXSR_QiP8

Also, there are more examples in the comments below the video, e.g., "Excuse me, I am an apple."
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Re: Let's share highly specific and unhelpful example sentences

Postby StringerBell » Mon Jan 31, 2022 7:16 pm

Today's winner from Reverso Context:

Then I'm going to draw you a nerve-wracking bath of indeterminate temperature.
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Re: Let's share highly specific and unhelpful example sentences

Postby Jim » Sat Feb 12, 2022 6:28 pm

From “First Russian Reader for Students”:

Чайник стоит на плите.
Он пустой?
Нет, он не пустой. Кот сидит в чайнике.

The kettle is on the stove.
Is it empty?
No, it is not empty. The cat is sitting in the teapot.
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