Re: VMs: NEW SCIENTIST 11/2001 ZANDONELLA

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Jacques Guy wrote:

> > > 	We keep hearing about this, but is it true?  How common are 
> >
> > four consecutive repetitions?   Three repetitions I have 
> > seen, but how common is that, really?
>
> Sigh. We've been through this time and again. 
>
> Di tempat ini ada banyak barang-barang. Barang-barang ini...

	Orang orang... Orang2... ("Men" in Indonesian.)

	I know that; I've said as much myself.  I meant, how common 
are threefold and fourfold repetitions in the *VMs*?

> My favourite:
>
> mahasiswa mahasiswa, mahasiswi mahasiswi...

	What is this?  I rather like it myself!

> In French: "Étudiants, étudiantes..."
>
> Yes, just like De Gaulle used to say: "Français, françaises..."

	Not to mention "Thrice-greatest Hermes", in English, Greek, 
Egyptian...

Dennis
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