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Pronoun order, once again

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Okay I tried this on my own thread, always risky as no one may notice. No one seems to, so I will make it a separate question:

In this thread:

http://www.spanishdict.com/answers/288407/r-i-d-order-revisited-once-again

Luis provided these as acceptable examples:

¡Te me vistes! , ¡Te me peinas!, ¡Te me lavas los dientes!

If I switch the pronominal subject of these sentences with the indirect object (from you do it for me to I do it for you), would it be:

  1. ¡Te me visto! , ¡Te me peino!, ¡Te me lavo los dientes! (Benajmin and Butt order)

  2. ¡Me te visto! , ¡ Me te peino!, ¡ Me te lavo los dientes! (R I D order)

  3. Or is it simply unnatural to turn them around that way?

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updated Jan 23, 2017
posted by bosquederoble

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I choose option # 3 - very unnatural.

These types of sentences of 2 different personal pronouns are only used with first person singular (usually) giving a command, positive or negative, to someone else just a Luis has shown.

updated Jan 23, 2017
posted by 005faa61
Okay, as far as I can tell both orders have to be maintained, and any sentence created that follows one but not the other always seems to sound wrong. :) - bosquederoble, Jan 23, 2017
Thank you. I suspected it might be 3, that is why I gave it as an option. :) - bosquederoble, Jan 23, 2017
The thing is, any command I can think of has to follow both orders, not just one. :) - bosquederoble, Jan 23, 2017