Appendix:Repetition

Translingual

Suprasegmental

[repetition]

1. Repetition of letters.
   1. Used for emphasis of many words.

      Deliciousssss!

      But I reeeeally want it!

   2. Sometimes, an interjection is normally written with a repetition of vowels, or the interjection may be even longer for emphasis.

      Eeew!

      Wooow!

   3. Used when calling someone.

      Daaaaaniel! Come here!

   4. (sarcasm) Indicates a sarcastic tone.

      Suuure, you keep telling yourself that!

   5. Used to denote stuttered speech.
   6. Indicates some plurals:

      Translingual: a. (“artery”) → aa.

      English: p. (“abbreviation of page”) → pp.; seq. (“and following”) → seqq.; S. (“abbreviation of Saint”) → SS.

      French: M. (abbreviation of Monsieur) → MM.

      Latin: S. (abbreviation of Sānctus; “Saint”) → SS.

2. Repetition of syllables.
   1. Used to denote a repetitive sound such as laughter.

      hahaha! hahahahaha!

      He knocked on the door: rat-a-tat-a-tat.

   2. Used to denote stuttered speech.
3. Repetition of words or phrases.
   1. (radio communications) Used to differentiate the actual use of some words or phrases with specific meanings from mentions of their use or from similar-sounding words or phrases.

      Mayday, Mayday, Mayday!

4. Repetition of punctuation marks.
   1. Used for emphasis of an exclamation mark and/or question mark.

      How old did you say you were????

5. Repetition of other symbols.
   1. A different number of asterisks (*) indicate different footnotes.

      Get a free* prize** of your choice***.
      * After spending $100 in products.
      ** Only given to the first 300 buyers.
      *** Subject to stock availability.

   2. Indicates the plural of the section symbol: § = one section; §§ = multiple sections.
   3. Indicates the plural of the pilcrow in legal citations: ¶ = paragraph; ¶¶ = paragraphs.

Hypernyms

• (repetition of letter): See Category:English pronunciation spellings, Category:English eye dialect

See also

• Category:English reduplicated coordinated pairs
• Category:English elongated forms
• alliteration
• consonance
• anadiplosis
• anaphora
• antanaclasis
• antistasis
• conduplicatio
• diacope
• diaphora
• epanalepsis
• epistrophe
• epizeuxis
• mesarchia
• mesodiplosis
• palilogia
• paregmenon
• polyptoton
• polysyndeton

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English

Suprasegmental

[repetition]

1. Repetition of letters.
   1. Keeps the sound of the last vowel in words with a suffix added.

      stop → stopping

      cancel → cancellation

2. Repetition of words.
   1. Used to distinguish the real or truer version of something.

      This is not money money. It's just Monopoly money.

      I have three pencils: light green, dark green and green green.

      • 2017, Coco (Pixar film)

        [Miguel, still as an alive boy, crosses over to the realm of the dead and meets his deceased relatives.]

        Papá Julio: You're here! Here here! And you can see us!

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Hindi

Suprasegmental

[repetition]

1. Repetition of words.
   1. Indicates something of little importance.

      पैसा-वैसा हमें कोई ज़रूरत नहीं।

      paisā-vaisā hamẽ koī zarūrat nahī̃.

      We don't need no money.

      अभी कुछ काम-शाम कर रहा हूँ।

      abhī kuch kām-śām kar rahā hū̃.

      I'm doing some work right now.

   2. Like, similar to.

      वह आदमी काफ़ी मोटा-शोटा था।

      vah ādmī kāfī moṭā-śoṭā thā.

      He was kinda fat.

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Japanese

Suprasegmental

[repetition]

1. Repetition of kanji or use of 々.
   1. Forms a variety of words.
   2. Forms some words that are plurals of the single-kanji words.

      神 (kami, “god”) → 神々 (kamigami, “gods”)

      人 (hito, “person”) → 人々 (hitobito, “people”)

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Malaccan Creole Portuguese

Grammatical process

[repetition]

1. Repetition of words.
   1. Forms the plurals of nouns.

      rampeh (“spice”) → rampeh-rampeh (“spices”)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

Concerning the sense "used to emphasise adverbs and adjectives", the first word of the pair is pronounced with a higher intonation.

Grammatical process

[repetition]

1. (colloquial) used to emphasise adjectives and simple adverbs; pretty; quite

   Esse avião voa rápido rápido.

   This aeroplane flies pretty fast.

Synonyms

• bem, bastante

Orthographic process

[repetition]

1. Repetition of letters.
   1. "rr" = /ʁ/, as opposed to "r" = /ɾ/ (except in the beginning of a word: "r" = /ʁ/).

      carro, ferro, correr

      car, iron, run

   2. "ss" = /s/, as opposed to "s" = /z/ (except in the beginning of a word: "s" = /s/).

      osso, assar, passeio

      bone, bake, walk (noun)