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The weather is fair today. My dad and I are studying reduplicative at home. It began with a question I asked when we were reading some idioms. Is okey-dokey an idiom? At first, my dad replied yes without thinking. Then to confirm it, I searched it on Google. (Thanks to the bachelor thesis, A Linguistic Analysis of Reduplicative Expressions in English, written by Betat Preuszova. The inclusive attachments are very helpful.) There was a new world waiting for me - reduplication. I hauled my dad to study it together willy-nilly. We jotted some fun ones on a notebook higgledy-piggledy. Then we started babbling hocus-pocus. Now we all have nicknames. My mom is the roly-poly Kitch-Witch. My dad is the hoity-toity Silly Billy. And I am the hotsy-totsy BigWig.
Feb 25, 2023 7:51 AM
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The weather is fair today. My dad and I are studying reduplication at home. It began with a question I asked when we were reading some idioms. Is okey-dokey an idiom? At first, my dad replied "yes" without thinking. Then to confirm it, I searched it on Google. (Thanks to the bachelor thesis, A Linguistic Analysis of Reduplicative Expressions in English, written by Betat Preuszova. The inclusive attachments are very helpful.) There was a new world awaiting me - reduplication. I hauled my dad to study it together willy-nilly. We jotted some fun ones on a notebook higgledy-piggledy. Then we started babbling hocus-pocus. Now we all have nicknames. My mom is the roly-poly Kitch-Witch. My dad is the hoity-toity Silly Billy. And I am the hotsy-totsy BigWig.
"Reduplicative" is an adjective.
February 25, 2023
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The weather is fair today. My dad and I are studying reduplicative at home. It
began with a question I asked when we were reading some idioms. Is okey-dokey an
idiom? At first, my dad replied yes without thinking. Then to confirm it, I
searched it on Google. (Thanks to the bachelor thesis, A Linguistic Analysis of
Reduplicative Expressions in English, written by Betat Preuszova. The inclusive
attachments are very helpful.) There was a new world waiting for me -
reduplication. I hauled my dad to study it together willy-nilly. We jotted some
fun ones on a notebook higgledy-piggledy. Then we started babbling hocus-pocus.
Now we all have nicknames. My mom is the roly-poly Kitch-Witch. My dad is the
hoity-toity Silly Billy. And I am the hotsy-totsy BigWig.
You made me think of this!
February 25, 2023
1
The weather is fair today. My dad and I are studying reduplicatives at home. It
began with a question I asked when we were reading some idioms. Is okey-dokey an
idiom? At first, my dad replied yes without thinking. Then to confirm it, I
searched it on Google. (Thanks to the bachelor thesis, A Linguistic Analysis of
Reduplicative Expressions in English, written by Betat Preuszova. The included
attachments are very helpful.) There was a new world waiting for me -
reduplication. I hauled my dad to study it together willy-nilly. We jotted some
fun ones on a notebook higgledy-piggledy. Then we started babbling hocus-pocus.
Now we all have nicknames. My mom is the roly-poly Kitch-Witch. My dad is the
hoity-toity Silly Billy. And I am the hotsy-totsy BigWig.
Haha! Thanks for the lesson. You should be a teacher on here!
February 25, 2023
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Chinese (Mandarin), English, Japanese
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