Poetic contrastive focus reduplication
From Nancy Friedman — Billy Collins, "After the Funeral", in Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems, 2013:
From Nancy Friedman — Billy Collins, "After the Funeral", in Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems, 2013:
From Ikea and ad agency BBH: And feel the force of Contrastive Focus Reduplication™.
MM writes: I would like to hear your take on the following: In episode 8/2 of House, he recounts his prison experience to his colleagues: I wasn't raped. Well, perhaps I was raped, but not raped raped. Well, perhaps I was raped raped, but not raped raped raped. This is not a simple intensifier (as […]
Today's Sheldon takes Contrastive Focus Reduplication up a notch: [Tip of the hat to David Craig]
Hilary is finished with contrastive focus reduplication, and is now exploring the communicative potential of re-framing rhetorical questions as real ones: