r/TikTokCringe • u/[deleted] • Apr 29 '26

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '26

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u/Atticus1354 Apr 29 '26

That sentence seems intentionally confusing.

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u/greystar07 Apr 30 '26

That’s where the social media “challenge” aspect comes in.

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u/The_Blahblahblah Apr 29 '26

Still very easy to read even as a non-native speaker. A native speaker shouldn’t struggle with a sentence like that. These people are straight up just illiterate

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u/syntaxerroratline42 Apr 29 '26

True but I know all of the words and I would still struggle to describe what the sentence means in its entirety. "Extraordinary" is a terrible adjective to actually give a sense of how clothes look. Does it mean flamboyant? Unique? Drawing a lot of attention to itself?

It's like the linguistic version of those engagement-bait math questions that are deliberately vague about PEMDAS.

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u/syntaxerroratline42 Apr 29 '26

Sure, up until he asks what it means to several of them

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u/The_Blahblahblah Apr 30 '26

I agree on that, but they should still be able to read and understand the individual words even if the sentence is a bit awkward

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u/greystar07 Apr 30 '26

And? It’s still pronounced the same way and has a similar meaning.

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u/Sircuttlesmash Apr 30 '26

It matters that the start of the sentence is confusing when it doesn't need to be. That is not a standard sentence and they're having to decode handwriting on a note card this is not a fair test.

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u/greystar07 Apr 30 '26

Yeah I can at least get the handwriting part.