"让我告诉你一件好笑的事情。"
Translation:Let me tell you a funny thing.
December 10, 2017
9 Comments
PoppyDGrate
648
This is another example of the awkward Chinglish translations in these lessons. Perhaps "Let me tell you something funny" would be a bit better.
May 26, 2018
Yeah, quiet good example.
Cause in Chinese "let me" in this sentence is unnecessary. Also "tell" shouldn't be translated to "告訴", "說" is better. This sentence sounds like an elder is telling something serious to juniors. It makes something funny unfunny. We just say "(我)跟你說個好笑的(事)"
June 20, 2018
PoppyDGrate
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件 is a classifier for a number of different types of nouns, including 事情 ~ it's not limited to only items of clothing.
For that matter, 件 is not the catch-all classifier for clothing. For instance, the classifier for 裤子 (pants) is 条.
December 19, 2018
