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reduplication
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reduplication
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Reduplicative Toasting
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Let's drink to that...twice. Everyone grows up with particular words and phrases that are not necessarily common to the masses. I have a...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Interpreting a Foreign Idiomatic Reduplication
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I recently watched the Argentine movie The Secret in Their Eyes and I can see why it won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language F...
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Restaurant Reduplication
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Food Network has a fun show called Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. The show visits restaurants that fall under the aforementioned category and ...
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Rhyming Word Pairs, Reduplication and Idioms, e.g., Tramp Stamp and Roach Coach
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A recent episode of the television show "Bones" happened to include two rhyming word pairs: roach coach and tramp stamp. This phe...
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