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Re: THEORY: Reduplication

From:Mia Soderquist <tuozin@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 27, 1999, 17:20
dirk elzinga wrote:
> > I'm hearing this with increasing frequency. How many of you > native English speakers have done this in the last 24 hours? > (C'mon, raise those hands; I know you're out there.) Is this > what you mean by exemplars, Boudewijn?
I do this all the time. "Ok, kids. Tonight we are going to have a DINNER dinner, where everyone sits at the table and uses utensils, and eats FOOD food, not pizza and soda." <laugh> -- Mia Soderquist (tuozin@dmv.com) clank clank *crash* clank clank *crash* (Two knights walk into a bar)