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"让我告诉你一件好笑的事情。"
Translation:Let me tell you a funny thing.
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1090
This is another example of the awkward Chinglish translations in these lessons. Perhaps "Let me tell you something funny" would be a bit better.
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)"
- 1090
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.
In this sentence in particular I guess they would be about the same, but they are not always the same. 让 is the "make" in "make someone do something," or the "let" in "let someone do something," or the "have" in "have someone do something." 吧 turns a command into a suggestion.
Let me tell you a funny thing: we bumped into him at the hospital; he seemed upset.
Duolingo Guys! Work Harder! Let me tell you a funny thing. Let me tell you one funny thing. What is the difference?
- 666
Well it would be unusual to use 'one' here. Perhaps if your friend said not to talk to him, but you begged him to listen to just one funny thing and no more than that. It could perhaps be accepted but it's not the normal way to say this.
