Contortions

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of contortion form-of, plural

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struggle

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"It costs nothing to be specific, and doing so works better in the Tatoeba context, where the basic unit is a sentence that should be able to stand on its own without mental contortions to screw out a possible meaning from an otherwise meaningless sentence. Let's eschew the baroque and make things easy for language learners."

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