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What's your most controversial utterance over the airwaves whose critics you disagree with, and what's the one you come closest to thinking "maybe it was quite faulty of me" (even if you stand by it)? (lemmy.ml)

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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

wtf does this even mean

OP is asking two things:

the most controversial shit that you say
the shit that you say and think "mmh, maybe I'm wrong but I'll keep saying it"

...or at least that's how I interpreted it.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 54 minutes ago

I read it as these two questions:

Which controversial sentence said over public broadcast media do you disagree with the critiques of?
Which controversial broadcast sentence do you come closest to agreeing with, even if you don't think it true and hate yourself for even contemplating as true

Don't know if I'm right or but that reading makes most sense to me after a couple of passes and some thinking.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

How could anyone perceive it any other way?

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

As you said in the other comment, the sentence is grammatically OK¹. However, it's still a huge sentence, with a few less common words (e.g. "utterance"), split into two co-ordinated clauses, and both clauses are by themselves complex.

To add injury there's quite a few ways to interpret "over the airwaves" (e.g. is this just radio, or does the internet count too?)

So people are giving up parsing the whole thing.

I also write like this, in a convoluted way², but I kind of get why people gave up.

I'm not sure if it's semantically OK due to the word "utterance".
Except when translating stuff, since I'm forced to roughly follow the "informational layout" of the original. That's usually a PITA but it helps wonder for clarity!

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