Reduplication? Really for real? - 08/06/12 03:46 PM
Has to be an example of linguists having fun. Another term for the phenomenon, according to Wikipedia, is "tautonym." Works for me.
Re: Reduplication? Really for real? - 08/06/12 09:51 PM
My favorite reduplicative name is the character Nicely-Nicely Johnson, everyone's pal and all-around good guy from the musical, "Guys and Dolls."
Re: Reduplication? Really for real? - 08/06/12 09:53 PM
D'accord! ! I'd forgotten about him.
Re: Reduplication? Really for real? - 08/08/12 12:59 AM
Reminds me of the early BBC drama Softly softly.
Re: Reduplication? Really for real? - 08/13/12 02:02 PM
Why doesn't reduplication mean multiple of four?
Re: Reduplication? Really for real? - 08/13/12 02:08 PM
Why doesn't reduplication mean multiple of four?
Because it doesn't.
Because it doesn't.
"The Stimulus Is Working" too - 08/13/12 03:27 PM
Jeepers Wally, it all makes sense now. 
Re: "The Stimulus Is Working" too - 08/13/12 05:20 PM
Just a suggestion, mind. The re- might be the intensive re- and not the repetitive re-.
Re: "The Stimulus Is Working" too - 08/31/12 02:08 PM
OK Fal you saw this coming: Intensive re- example?
Maybe as applied to 'gurgitate' or 'mittence'?
Maybe as applied to 'gurgitate' or 'mittence'?
Re: "The Stimulus Is Working" too - 08/31/12 05:29 PM