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By Jeff | December 20, 2007
Sculpture by Zhang Yaxi
I don’t know if this is a recent fad or something that caught on from a women audience driven tv show. Or maybe, this has been going on since the beginning of time and I’m just recently noticing it. But my question is: why do females (at least mostly females) find it totally acceptable that repeating a word defines what they are talking about more clearly. A co-worker of mine referred to it as “double words”. I’m not sure if that is what they call it or just how he describes this crazy obsession. Just add this to my list of reasons I don’t understand women.
Let me explain a few conversations that I have heard this past year to further explain. (Note: this is totally from memory so some of the details may be off, but the repeated word is correct.)
The laundry room did have a door.
You mean a door door?
Yes.Is that her boyfriend boyfriend?
Really really?
He got you a ring ring?
Do you love it love it?
Is she pregnant pregnant?
For real real, not for play play.
Like… sex sex, or just sex?
You can come over now.
When, right now right now?Do you like him, or do you like him like him?
Commercial example:
A hybrid hybrid?
I don’t know what a hybrid hybrid is, but yes.
It’s been stated that statistically women speak more words than men do in a given day. Although there seems to no actual proof of that as mentioned here. I’m beginning to understand part of the reason that it may be true. I mean, I don’t think you would ever hear some of the following statements from men (or at least I hope not).
Hey Bob. You need to check your zipper zipper.
Yeah, I tried, but she turned me down down.
I can’t Zane, my license is suspended suspended.
Yes, Preston, sometimes you have to work work to make that money money.
Let me tell you a little something something.
Oh, wait. I’ve used that last one - bad example. Nonetheless, I realize there is little that I can do about this phenomenon even though I have repeatedly made fun of my wife for participating in this redundancy ritual. Poor woman. I guess if I want to consider myself a supporting husband, I just need to start learning what door door, ring ring, and pregnant pregnant really mean as opposed to what simply a door, a ring, or being pregnant mean. Maybe they should rename the planet Venus Venus to help us inhabitants of Mars out.
Painting by Martina Shapiro
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Topics: double words, redundancy, word repeats |
December 20th, 2007 at 7:56 am
“Did you hook up with that chick last night or did you hook up hook up?”
Yeah, it just doesn’t work for me. But I do like your theory of why women speak more words in a day then men. I mean, I like it, like it.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:37 am
December 27th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
I understood every single one of those. I mean, I understood, understood.
December 27th, 2007 at 10:13 pm