>Yes, that's as maybe, but I can count on zero hands the number of times I've ever said "Take the shoes off the sheet metal worker"
That was just a constructed example. I just created a regular sentence using two words I knew didn't exist in English...
>BTW, what's this to do with a contest?
...and posted it as an informal contest at Sezam BBS (yes, the classic old bulletin board system, still alive after almost seventeen years, same old gang still hanging out there) back home. The task was to find the shortest possible good translation. "Good" was defined as "anyone speaking English would exactly know what to do and to whom".