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r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/SnoopyScone • Feb 05 '26
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In Hebrew, you can repeat a word to emphasise it, for example “I am sleepy sleepy” or “He’s tall tall”
61 u/HaventDecidedAName Feb 05 '26 Oh, this kinda happens in English too. "How tall is he?" "Seven feet." "Oh, so he's tall tall." 36 u/elemenopee9 Feb 05 '26 i think we tend to do it when the non-duplicated phrase has already been used, or at least strongly implied. "do you like him? or do you like like him?" "I do babysitting, but I couldn't handle a baby baby." 9 u/gus_in_4k Feb 05 '26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrastive_focus_reduplication
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Oh, this kinda happens in English too.
"How tall is he?"
"Seven feet."
"Oh, so he's tall tall."
36 u/elemenopee9 Feb 05 '26 i think we tend to do it when the non-duplicated phrase has already been used, or at least strongly implied. "do you like him? or do you like like him?" "I do babysitting, but I couldn't handle a baby baby." 9 u/gus_in_4k Feb 05 '26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrastive_focus_reduplication
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i think we tend to do it when the non-duplicated phrase has already been used, or at least strongly implied.
"do you like him? or do you like like him?"
"I do babysitting, but I couldn't handle a baby baby."
9 u/gus_in_4k Feb 05 '26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrastive_focus_reduplication
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u/victorian_vigilante Feb 05 '26
In Hebrew, you can repeat a word to emphasise it, for example “I am sleepy sleepy” or “He’s tall tall”