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Sentence #400525

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Yetiowin Yetiowin January 10, 2018 January 10, 2018 at 10:27:28 PM UTC link Permalink

English people don't really say this. It would be: "it's too small, that ring is", or preferably: "that ring is too small".

Eccles17 Eccles17 January 11, 2018, edited January 11, 2018 January 11, 2018 at 12:21:40 AM UTC, edited January 11, 2018 at 12:22:14 AM UTC link Permalink

I'm a native English speaker and the sentence sounds fine to me. It sounds like someone who is reviewing their purchases and regretting what they bought. Yes, it's not really natural, but they would have to be distracted or absent-minded to talk like that. And that makes the sentence plausible.

Yetiowin Yetiowin January 11, 2018 January 11, 2018 at 12:27:45 AM UTC link Permalink

I can see what you're saying, but in any case it should be a comma and not a hyphen.

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #400523そう言えば小さすぎるわよ、その指輪。.

Now that I think of it, it's too small - this ring.

added by blay_paul, June 6, 2010

Now that I think of it, it's too small - that ring.

edited by blay_paul, June 6, 2010