check by native speakers needed, again

it's a doozy

difficult to make sense of it

Marius Hancuit's a doozy

difficult to make sense of it

Difficult it may b

Perhaps this would make more sense:

I wanted to say as much as possible in that speech/on that occasion, without wasting any words.

It makes sense, but it doesn't sound natural.

It means--

Because of reasonable limits to which you wanted to be obliged, you felt that you could not afford to waste words.

OK. I tell you what. Originally, it's a question as follows:

Complete the sentence, using the words below

( )( )( )( )( )( )( ) say ( )( )( ), I felt that I could not afford to waste words.

·that ·reasonable ·with ·within ·I ·limits ·much ·wanted ·so ·to

>With so much that I wanted to say within reasonable limits, I felt that I could not afford to >waste words.

Their answer is much better than the original post

The question was not what is the better construction, but 'does it make any sense at all?'

My answer to that question is that it does.

>No, their answer is much better

I referred in the above to the original post, not to yours, Davkett.

DavkettThe question was not what is the better construction,

Right, davkett. My question is not what is the better construction (from the beginning, I knew it was not natural, as I said 'It might not sound natural to you native speakers').

DavkettMy answer to that question is that it does.

Good. So theirs is n

With reasonable limits that I wanted to say so much within

I can understand it, yes. But I can understand a lot of what non-native speakers say, even when it is not grammatical or strictly speaking, logical.

This says that the speaker wants to say a lot within reasonable limits, but to me, that limits are imposed by the speaker himself. I keep stumbling because people STAY