He picked them at random. - English example sentence

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Ooneykcall December 21, 2014 December 21, 2014 at 4:30:36 PM UTC

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You've meant to link this to the German sentence, of course.

espatonay December 21, 2014 December 21, 2014 at 4:35:35 PM UTC

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Yes, I did. What did I do wrong?

Ooneykcall December 21, 2014 December 21, 2014 at 4:41:26 PM UTC

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You've linked this English sentence to the other English sentence. Since they do not match each other, that's not correct. Hence, I've unlinked it and linked it to the German sentence. However, even if the two English sentences did match, it is advised that we do not link two sentences of the same language together unless they reflect two rather different ways of expressing the same idea, in which case one may want to link them to show that, even though they look different, they're rather close in meaning. This is a rare case though.