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raccoon

(32,445 posts) Tue Apr 3, 2012, 03:50 PM Apr 2012

Do you repeat words, particularly adjectives, thinking that by repeating you'll make [View all]

their meaning really really really stronger?

If you do--quit it, quit it, quit it, quit it. (That's what I say to my cat when she's annoying.)

Professor Michael Drout does this on the Modern Scholar lectures and he drives me NUTS when he does that.

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Do you repeat words, particularly adjectives, thinking that by repeating you'll make [View all] raccoon Apr 2012 OP

nuts, nuts, nuts. geardaddy Apr 2012 #1

Repeat single words? Nope, I just repeat my whole thought several times, petronius Apr 2012 #2

You'll never do well in ASL with that attitude. Chan790 Apr 2012 #3

Actually I've found the words are much stronger if you leave out adjectives lunatica Apr 2012 #4

Very, very rarely. KamaAina Apr 2012 #5

lente lente currite noctis equi dimbear Apr 2012 #6

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