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What would be the interpretation of verbs that have two levels of 'teiru' and
'rare' in them? I figure that the 'teiru' will be one for stative/perfective
and the other for progressive, and the 'rare' will be one for
passive/honorific and one for possibility/ability. Here are a few from Google
search:

```

    -神社には何がまつられてられているのだろうか？
    -富士の名水で育ってられてられてます
    -脇道も階段として整えてられてられているのだが　(3 'te'!)
    -調べてられてられないという事情も理解してください
    
```

These aren't that common, probably because they're hard to say and a little
complicated to parse (think "the fish will have been being eaten"). I'm
guessing the interpretations would be something like "have been able to be
being done something to".

Of course, there's the possibility that this is something that people say
because they think it's funny, or some sort of typo :) If both interpretations
of both words are actually in the verb, could someone with a native intuition
tell me which one means which?

Edit:

Lots more googling. I searched for two patterns: "られてられて" and "てられてられ". The
first one got much more hits than the second one, and with more formal and
professional language (though there were exceptions).

Also, I think, a cool discovery: emphasis via repetition of the passive
auxiliary. Tell me if it's wrong. Examples:

```

    -最近、復職を求められてられてばかりで落ち込み気味。
    -また、マスコミに煽られてられて投資信託を購入しましたが
    -見せられてられて火病を起こしているようにしか見えないぞｗｗ
    
```
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potential-form passive-voice
two levels for teiru and rare
They seem entirely ungrammatical to me.

But, the number of search hits for
["られてられて"](http://www.google.com/search?q=+%22%E3%82%89%E3%82%8C%E3%81%A6%E3%82%89%E3%82%8C%E3%81%A6%22)
(94,100,000) verges on the frightening - almost makes me suspect that the
Japanese language has changed its syntax behind my back.. All the more so when
you see that these usage contexts include pretty formal ones which must have
gone through some kind of proofreading [1].

My best guess is that since typing in ra-re-te or te-ra-re requires highly
sophisticated movement of the left hand fingers, if you're on a roman-ji
keyboard, all of these 94,100,000 instances of られてられて are results of jumbled
up fingers or minds. Or mischiefs of overtrained IMEs.

Interestingly, [chakoshi](http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/chakoshi/public.html)
fails to return any example of られてられて or てられてられ usage in literary text (from
Aozora bunko, a project Gutenberg for Japanese literature) or conversational
Japanese corpora (from Nagoya University).

[1] For example, "文科省は [...] 研修に十分な手段が講じられてられており、その質は高いと主張している"
([教員の地位勧告の適用に関する ＩＬＯ・ユネスコ共同専門家委員会](http://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/kinpyo-
saiban/undou/2008CEART-kankoku.pdf), p.5)

**Edit:** I hope someone could point at a grammar rule that disallows such
repeated succession of particles. I myself would be nonplussed if someone came
along and, without explanation, told me that my idea was out right wrong.
Unfortunately, I don't have enough explicit knowledge on Japanese grammar to
provide that explanation.
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