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by kraag22 2013 days ago
My english is not good enough to translate this. Even with dictionary I have no chance. What is meaning of this - for example? "She was a descript person, a woman in a state of total array." I understand every word, but don't get meaning at all.
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Understand firstly that it’s a joke.

The common English expressions are:

“Nondescript” -> not memorable, doesn’t stand out

“disarray” -> messed up, disorganised

This is just changing those to the positive version, but those words are not usually used in English. So it sounds amusing to an English speaker.

You might translate the sentence to normal English as: “She was a striking and very composed person.”