那奇了怪了
“That's strange.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我没有啊
“I didn't.”
那 奇了怪了
“That's strange.”
“I know which companies I've applied to.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Fixed verbal patterns like '奇了怪了' reflect standard spoken Mandarin storytelling devices used to signal odd occurrences to peers.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
that's so weird / how bizarre
A highly colloquial northern Chinese idiom used when something baffling or inexplicable happens.
Intensifies the exclamatory nature of the weirdness in the fixed chunk.