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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsA disturbing trend I have noticed, people using the same word repeatedly as an intensifier.
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."
Sanity Claws
(21,869 posts)It is not even disturbing squared. It is just mildly disturbing.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)really, really, really agree with you....
olddots
(10,237 posts)Agree agree .
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)elleng
(131,601 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)Much better to say:
He was an outrageously hard teacher.
He was an unreasonably hard teacher.
He was an absurdly hard teacher.
Or maybe....
He wins first prize in the hard teacher contest.
You get the idea....
Lack of imagination, laziness, and a paucity of vocabulary.
Cher
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Unvanguard
(4,588 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Little_Wing
(417 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)"I totally aced that test."
"I totally understand what you're saying."
Unnecessary modifier.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)malthaussen
(17,250 posts)cloudbase
(5,533 posts)There. Killed two of 'em.
IcyPeas
(21,966 posts)From a fictitious language called "Newspeak." Using Newspeak instead of English was supposed to prevent "thoughtcrime." (q.v.)
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)did this all the time: "very very"... It was like a verbal tic.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Thou'lt come no more, never, never, never, never, never!
grasswire
(50,130 posts)He's guilty, guilty
UTUSN
(70,848 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)Extremely.
Unfortunately.
Excruciatingly.
Fantabulously.
malthaussen
(17,250 posts)Hebrew uses repetition for emphasis, as well as for neat little constructions like "She shall be stoned with stones." Just in case, you know, you wanted to stone her with something else.
It can be quite poetic. I still think "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity" is much more lyrical than modern translations.
-- Mal
Iggo
(47,625 posts)malthaussen
(17,250 posts)As in "Nixon was better than Reagan," for example.
-- Mal
Iggo
(47,625 posts)Although I still think praising with praise is the meat of it.
malthaussen
(17,250 posts)That is, "shit to the third degree?" (Apologies to Francophones, I probably butchered that)
-- Mal
Doc_Technical
(3,530 posts)Iggo
(47,625 posts)...before he gets back up in front of that class again.
I really really do.
Know'm say'n?
Lionel Mandrake
(4,089 posts)unless you're related to King Kamehameha.
Coventina
(27,234 posts)I know I do it, and I admit it is sloppy use of language.
BB_Smoke
(62 posts)Special Prosciuto
(731 posts)"Democrats do the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over..."
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