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This occurs when a line or more from the original text is unintentionally skipped altogether, resulting in an incomprehensible, mangled style.
And of mangled passages like that--now translated with too much freedom, now too literally--is to cover García Márquez's text with a thin, almost invisible varnish of strangeness, which is exactly what the author never meant to have happen.
2. Don't criticize without offering a sensible alternative: A key reason for our mangled China policy is that China hawks endlessly indict U.S. policy without proposing their own remedy.
In fact, while its fondness for the most idiotic, juvenile humor knows no bounds, any strong emotion is taboo (unless you count horror at having your penis mangled)--that's part of the British influence, I guess.
I swam in the sea there, among the mangled steel.