Re:The Awful German Language (1880)
by Symbiote on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:54AM
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> too convoluted
It's a sentence that would typically be spoken rather than written, but it's only a step beyond "you would have had to have been there", which has genuine occurrences in Google Search.
Re:The Awful German Language (1880)
by cptsmrk on Monday May 17, 2021 @02:46PM
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Which is also funny, because it's apparently convoluted enough in English to have us regularly shorten it to "you had to be there" (which sounds correct, even though I'm fairly sure it's ungrammatical.
It's a sentence that would typically be spoken rather than written, but it's only a step beyond "you would have had to have been there", which has genuine occurrences in Google Search.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22You+would+have+had+to+hav...