Re: VMs: Odd Thoughts

["Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis wrote:

>         One hears that one never sees strings of the same word
> repeated in natural languages.  This is not so.  The
> commonly used example "the the the" is a poor one.
> "the" is a determiner, only one of which may precede a
> noun.   One sees multiple adjectives: "an old, old
> story"; multiple adverbs: "a very, very bad book"; and
> multiple verbs are not unknown: "Now you've done it,
> you've done, done, done it."  These are not very
> common, but I don't think they're very common in the
> VMs. Am I right about that?

I remember a sentence from an exercise polishing one's
grasp of conditionals:

   If the sentence that had "had had" had had "had", it
   would have been correct.

Best regards,

Rafal
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