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Why is "message receiving processing" so jarring?
It’s a little bumpy, but it seems perfectly natural in context:
A classical command and control system mainly consists of the
following parts:
Message receiving processing: to receive all kinds of ...
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Why is "message receiving processing" so jarring?
There is an associated phenomenon called the 'double -ing constraint', which has been covered on ELU before [F.E.'s Answer]:
Some verbs that license gerund-participial complements cannot
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