(I see what you did there, if you did what I think you did. If you didn't do it, please disregard this.)
I can see two cases you're plausibly asking about here:
The case of not being able to make sense of a sentence and wanting to know whether it's you failing to read something that is well-formed, the author failing to write something that is well-formed, or the language being able to support this content in a well-formed manner.
The case of reading a lot, and apparently understanding it, but not being sure whether you're actually doing the necessary work to understand it, because the mechanisms of that work are inscrutable.
Which of these are you asking? Or are you asking something else?
I'm asking about the case of not being able to make sense of a sentence and wanting to know whether it's you failing to read something that is well-formed, the author failing to write something that is well-formed, or the language being able to support this content in a well-formed manner.
To add context, I frequently encounter writing in legalese that I can't break down into an if/else flow chart and the writing should be able to be broke down into a simple logical chain. If the author is using precise language to keep things as brief as possible and I'm u...
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