Thread:Higaboi21/@comment-24162773-20141024224618

Sorry to bother you with another Japanese grammar question, but 気にならなくて出来ません. (Correct me if anything is incorrect or not idiomatic.) My question regards what I think is called "recursion" in linguistics. Basically it refers to repeating things in a similar way, for example:

'''天気はいいと彼が思うとあなたが思うと私が思う. '''

I think (that) you think (that) he thinks (that) the weather is nice.

However, I'm having difficultly saying a sentence in which the verbs recur, for example:

I made you make him eat bread.

In Japanese, my best attempts at the above sentence are:

'''*私は、あなたが彼にパンを食べさせさせた. '''

'''*私は、あなたが彼にパンを食べさせることをさせた. '''

Both of which are probably very strange, so I would appreciate your help on how to say such sentences. 