Check Out Ths Sentence from a Texbook That I am Reading

[Yavin4]

"The accessibilities that are permitted for accessors depend on the accessibility of the property, and it is forbidden to make an accessor more accessible than the property to which it belongs."

[Forkboy]

1. Man, comic books have changed a lot since I was a kid.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Sounds like the classic translations of Japanese music gear manuals to English.

Also: I'm so sorry. :hug:

[Brigid]

3. I have a BS in English . . .

And I could not make this out. Yikes! Is the whole book like that?

[madeline_con]

11. So does that textbook! n/t

[rug]

4. Ask Boojatta to translate.

[Pharlo]

7. Mean to say,

but that one cracked me up.

[county worker]

5. The availability of the space needed for someone to go on the property

depends on the whether the property has enough space and it is forbidden to let someone on property that doesn't have enough space.

[Turbineguy]

6. Sir Humphrey Appleby

Yes, Prime Minister.

Sounds like.

[Pharlo]

8. I disagree with that particular assessment.

Sir Humphrey would have been far more obscure and much more pretentious. This is more Bernard Woolley dialogue.

[Turbineguy]

13. I stand corrected. Yes.

Something like this?

"It is characteristic of all committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them and that every member’s recollection of them differs violently from every other member’s recollection. Consequently, we accept the convention that the official decisions are those and only those which have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials, from which it emerges with an elegant inevitability that any decision which has been officially reached will have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials and any decision which is not recorded in the minutes has not been officially reached even if one or more members believe they can recollect it, so in this particular case, if the decision had been officially reached it would have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials, and it isn’t so it wasn’t."

[Pharlo]

21. There you go, that is

more Sir Humphrey-esque.

[rcrush]

9. Why are textbooks written that way?

The most dry and boring BS way of saying something. It seems to me that kids would enjoy learning more if the book they are reading doesnt sound like a riddle.

[woo me with science]

10. Sounds like Faulkner.

"Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.”

[leeroysphitz]

20. Not Faulkner. No. More like Updike. IMHO n/t

[Common Sense Party]

12. Ran it through Translation Party website:

"For more information, access, and property accessor accessibility Akuseshibiritiakusesa property, permission is prohibited from belonging to a dependency."

Kinda makes more sense that way.

http://www.translationparty.com/#4274753

[jobycom]

14. No wonder abstinence only fails, if that's the handbook. nt

[surrealAmerican]

15. Is the whole thing written in tongue twisters?

... or was it just translated by babelfish ?

[lillypaddle]

16. sorry

but that textbook fails on too many levels. Throw it away. Now.

[Writer]

17. The first part I can understand, the second part not so much. n/t

[mnhtnbb]

18. What class are you taking? Where?

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Computer programming, I assume. Makes sense to me.

Probably could have been better written - or even more rightly, better planned - but perfectly understandable.

[rucky]

22. Does the accessor get access if he accentuates his accent?