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Verb Doubling
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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The disk heads just crashed. Lose, lose. Mostly he talked about his
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latest crock. Flame, flame. Boy, what a bagbiter! Chomp, chomp! Some
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verb-doubled constructions have special meanings not immediately obvious
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from the verb. These have their own listings in the lexicon. The Usenet
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culture has one tripling convention unrelated to this; the names of joke
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topic groups often have a tripled last element. The first and paradigmatic
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example was alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork (a Muppet Show reference); other
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infamous examples have included: alt.french.captain.borg.borg.borg
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alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die comp.unix.internals.system.calls.brk.brk.brk
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sci.physics.edward.teller.boom.boom.boom
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alt.sadistic.dentists.drill.drill.drill These two traditions fuse in the
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newsgroup alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb , devoted to humor based on
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deliberately confounding parts of speech. Several observers have noted that
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the contents of this group is excellently representative of the
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peculiarities of hacker humor. Prev Up Next Chapter4.
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