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raccoon

(32,403 posts) Wed May 6, 2015, 03:54 PM May 2015

A disturbing trend I have noticed, people using the same word repeatedly as an intensifier. [View all]

For example:

He was a very very very hard teacher.

This gets on my nerves. How about if somebody has to do that, use a superscript after the word? The same way you write
exponents in math.

Or if they are talking, they could say,

"He was a very cubed hard teacher."

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A disturbing trend I have noticed, people using the same word repeatedly as an intensifier. [View all] raccoon May 2015 OP

To me, that is not disturbing disturbing. Sanity Claws May 2015 #1

Woody Allen addressed this disturbing phenomenon sometime way back. As only Woody could. Smarmie Doofus May 2015 #2

I really, really, really agree with this! pinboy3niner May 2015 #3

I very, very, very much Sherman A1 May 2015 #31

I really really agree olddots May 2015 #4

And that's *TWO* "reallys" !!!! Smarmie Doofus May 2015 #5

Really Really Really!!! elleng May 2015 #6

People who do that either lack imagination, have a small vocabulary, or are just lazy. Avalux May 2015 #7

as usual NJCher May 2015 #8

Well aren't you, like, a Debbie Downer, like? pinboy3niner May 2015 #12

Or maybe they just feel like saying what they are saying the way they want to say it. Capisce? WinkyDink May 2015 #24

Or maybe they just have a different style from you. n/t Unvanguard May 2015 #30

Or one could just be other wise seveneyes May 2015 #9

No No No No No! Katashi_itto May 2015 #10

oh no NoNononono Katashi_itto May 2015 #11

That's just cray cray. eom Little_Wing May 2015 #13

Totally. trof May 2015 #14

I think I get it: "It was a pentagoned fucking war" pinboy3niner May 2015 #15

Aren't they all. n/t malthaussen May 2015 #28

A very, very unique observation. cloudbase May 2015 #16

George Orwell - 1984 - Newspeak IcyPeas May 2015 #17

Generalissimo Giuliani (former NYC mayor) LiberalElite May 2015 #18

Bah. Gidney N Cloyd May 2015 #19

One should never do that. Orsino May 2015 #20

Wolf Wolf Blitzer Blitzer grasswire May 2015 #21

Haha, "disturbing" is quite the intensifier itself!1 n/t UTUSN May 2015 #22

The so-called "trend" is not "disturbing"; YOU are "disturbed" by reading this locution. WinkyDink May 2015 #23

I tend to use adverbs. kentauros May 2015 #25

Showing some Hebrew influence. malthaussen May 2015 #26

My favorite is praising with great praise. Iggo May 2015 #33

Well, it is possible to praise with faint praise. malthaussen May 2015 #34

Ah, of course. Iggo May 2015 #35

You mean like "Merde de la presence troisieme?" malthaussen May 2015 #27

I blame this on Captain Kangaroo Doc_Technical May 2015 #29

I think that teacher needs to go "take care of business"... Iggo May 2015 #32

Don't order Mahi-mahi Lionel Mandrake May 2015 #36

I plead guilty, GUILTY!!! Coventina May 2015 #37

I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers. BB_Smoke May 2015 #38

A nervous radio guy named Hannity does that a lot. Special Prosciuto May 2015 #39