IRL I’m actually a geriatric millennial translator. So and this client approaches me about a project he has, he says he wants to learn German and wants to build a database with example sentences around vocabulary for A1.
I’m like ok sure whatever I’ll do it, a girl needs to pay bills. Well first of all this was some b*ring ass shit and it took forever, but here’s my whole point: I get now why Duolingo has some weird ass sentences. I get it. If you’re tasked with coming up with example sentences, and they have to adhere to certain parameters (e. g. can’t be too complex, can’t be past tense, can only have these words, needs to have an infinitive etc etc), it’s super easy to blank and just be unable to come up with something someone actually would say. so here are some of my gems that I came up with:
so I just wanted to tell you all, I get it now. This is why Duolingo is so weird
