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I cannot make up words to do this.
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The speaker says they cannot invent wording for “this” task. The sentence presents a limit: whatever needs to be expressed or accomplished cannot be handled by simply making up words. The exact task remains unspecified.
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- German History in Documents and Images (German Historical Institute)
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