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Eldad Eldad December 6, 2010 December 6, 2010 at 10:53:29 PM UTC link Permalink

is *an* art.

BraveSentry BraveSentry December 6, 2010 December 6, 2010 at 10:55:20 PM UTC link Permalink

http://www.barnorama.com/wp-con...9/trolling.jpg

Eldad Eldad December 6, 2010 December 6, 2010 at 10:58:18 PM UTC link Permalink

What do you mean? :)
Do you wish to use a mistake as a proper sentence? :) (maybe you do, I'm not sure)

Eldad Eldad December 6, 2010 December 6, 2010 at 10:59:21 PM UTC link Permalink

Ok, I checked again, and got the point. Thanks :)

kebukebu kebukebu December 7, 2010 December 7, 2010 at 2:31:13 AM UTC link Permalink

Does that mean you should deliberately misspell your Esperanto translation? :)

Esti trolo esta arto? :P

Eldad Eldad December 7, 2010 December 7, 2010 at 6:48:28 AM UTC link Permalink

I accept that. I'll add a quasi-indefinite article, "unu" (which we don't have in Esperanto), as a parallel to that "a".

Eldad Eldad December 7, 2010 December 7, 2010 at 6:55:14 AM UTC link Permalink

@kebukebu, "esta" could indeed be considered a misspelling, but I believe Nero's suggestion is better, as "esta" WAS Esperanto in one of the preliminary versions of the international language, and was then changed to "estas". At the earlier stage it was written "está", if my memory serves me right.

kebukebu kebukebu December 7, 2010 December 7, 2010 at 2:25:44 PM UTC link Permalink

Interesting :) I agree that "unu" as an indefinite article is a more insidious way to elicit correction requests.

Eldad Eldad December 7, 2010 December 7, 2010 at 9:50:49 PM UTC link Permalink

:)

times times January 10, 2012 January 10, 2012 at 6:23:49 PM UTC link Permalink

sztuką
in Polish language is an error.

Eldad Eldad January 10, 2012 January 10, 2012 at 6:27:04 PM UTC link Permalink

Hi times,

The sentence should have an error in it, as also the original sentence consists of an error.

This is why, I believe, the word has been used in Polish with a wrong case/form (to conform to the mistakes in all the other sentences ;-)).

Pfirsichbaeumchen Pfirsichbaeumchen June 1, 2014, edited June 1, 2014 June 1, 2014 at 4:40:13 PM UTC, edited June 1, 2014 at 4:41:16 PM UTC link Permalink

I wonder if the joke is really good enough to allow a deliberate mistake. Sorry for my bad sense of humour. ☺

Eldad Eldad June 1, 2014 June 1, 2014 at 6:27:01 PM UTC link Permalink

I'm not sure...
I mean, I'm not sure it's a bad sense of humor ☺
Reviewing all the above comments in retrospect, the above deliberate mistakes don't seem to me justifiable. But maybe you can regard all that as an exercise in accurate rendition of bad sentences... ;-)

Pfirsichbaeumchen Pfirsichbaeumchen June 2, 2014 June 2, 2014 at 5:39:36 AM UTC link Permalink

I'd suggest correcting the mistakes, because people might want to use these sentences, but won't expect mistakes in them. However, there already is a set of correct sentences: [#635632].

Ooneykcall Ooneykcall June 2, 2014 June 2, 2014 at 6:24:18 AM UTC link Permalink

The joke's on people who'd think of using a sentence with 'trolling' in it seriously. ☺

al_ex_an_der al_ex_an_der November 5, 2014, edited November 5, 2014 November 5, 2014 at 8:07:41 PM UTC, edited November 5, 2014 at 8:21:08 PM UTC link Permalink

Trolling isn't an art; eats an unart!

Pfirsichbaeumchen Pfirsichbaeumchen November 5, 2014 November 5, 2014 at 9:16:35 PM UTC link Permalink

*lach* ☺

gleki gleki November 10, 2014 November 10, 2014 at 12:30:02 PM UTC link Permalink

do we even have a tag for such sentences?

Buzulkusu Buzulkusu July 22, 2015 July 22, 2015 at 1:42:53 PM UTC link Permalink

"an" yerine "a" diyerek trollemişler. Kötülerinden sakınılmalı yoksa zarar verir.

Buzulkusu Buzulkusu August 1, 2015 August 1, 2015 at 7:42:28 PM UTC link Permalink

"Trollemek bi sanattır."

Tepan Tepan November 15, 2020 November 15, 2020 at 4:19:48 PM UTC link Permalink

https://en.wiki.tatoeba.org/art...how/guidelines
Do not intentionally add bad or confusing sentences in order to make a point.

shekitten shekitten November 15, 2020 November 15, 2020 at 6:44:47 PM UTC link Permalink

A joke isn't "to make a point".

Tepan Tepan November 15, 2020 November 15, 2020 at 6:47:25 PM UTC link Permalink

I can see your point.

tatoebashrek tatoebashrek March 25, 2021 March 25, 2021 at 7:08:51 AM UTC link Permalink

I don't think Tatoeba should have incorrect sentences.

espamatics espamatics May 31, 2021 May 31, 2021 at 8:53:45 PM UTC link Permalink

*an

Yorwba Yorwba May 31, 2021 May 31, 2021 at 9:14:02 PM UTC link Permalink

I wonder whether this could be rendered as a dialogue:

"Trolling is a art." "You mean 'an art.'" "Whoosh."

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Trolling is a art.

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